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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to 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 grown person in Tahiti has an eating hour allotted to him twice a day, at 10 A.M. and 5 P.M.

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

Never enter an arse-kicking contest with a porcupine.

Need doesn't care about being sensible.

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.

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.

Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.

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.

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

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

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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

Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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