Best 68 quotes in «sensible quotes» category

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.

The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

What we want to work with manufacturers on is to figure out how can we accommodate both interests in a sensible way? How can we optimize the privacy, security features of their devices and allow court orders to be complied with?

A grown person in Tahiti has an eating hour allotted to him twice a day, at 10 A.M. and 5 P.M.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

Allow the fear to keep you sensible but not to keep you still. If you're afraid of the dark then open your eyes, see that you are home.

A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don’t let fear turn possibility into certainty.

Don’t just exist; do something meaningful with your life. Discover a problem and fix it.

Beside being a respectable woman she was a very sensible one; and she knew there are some battles in life which a human being must fight alone.

I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.

Folk who turn their backs on trouble only get their arses kicked.

I am just making up for being far too sensible when I was young.

Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; her will was strong, her sense was excellent, and people yielded to her – they did not know why.

I have become intoxicated again. You are such a potent wine, my friend. To escape your withdrawal effects, tomorrow I will drink in excess. Alas, why make me love? I was aware, conscious, and sensible before. I am ill by cause of this illusion. The devil plays tricks on me more and more. I was a harp you immaculately plucked at will. Your score, the nightingale song within notes composed to imprison and bear me wings. Oh, if only they could hear how it sings! I am now beyond parched. My strings left untouched. You are no longer an oasis, my friend, but a mirage soon coming to an end.

In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense

Miss Sophia says she will never love again." "She'll marry someday," Ross replied cynically. "It is only a matter of time." "Yes, Miss Sophia will probably marry," Eliza said pragmatically. "What I said was, she will never love again." He shrugged casually. "If one is to marry, it is best to do it for reasons other than love." "That is exactly what Miss Sophia says." Eliza took her leave, pausing at the door to add with a bit too much sincerity, "How sensible you both are!" She departed with a chuckle while Ross scowled after her.

The trouble with being a rock of sense is that, eventually, you lose the sense and become the rock.

Need doesn't care about being sensible.

Never enter an arse-kicking contest with a porcupine.

Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.

Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.

Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.

She was like a sheet anchor sometimes, a steadying influence on him, on everyone around her. Made people laugh, that sensible streak in her, but it also made her someone of substance.

The mind is more sensible than heart, if you are sure listen to your heart, if you are confuse listen to your mind.

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.

They might be kind, I thought. They might be sensible and good. They will not be like you. But I did not say it. I knew it would mean nothing to her. I said something - something ordinary and mild, I cannot think what. And after a time she came and kissed my cheek, and then she left me.

I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter

Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

I don't think it's that difficult to administer. I'm sure a sensible solution can be found.

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts, but most of us prefer not to be sensible.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.