Best 68 quotes in «sensible quotes» category

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

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

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

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

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.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

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.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

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.

I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

I think it's sensible to plan for the future now I'm a father and a husband.

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

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

Sensible people have got to work together.

Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

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

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

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

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

The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.