Sensible Quotes

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. (Max Born)
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. View quote
W. H. Auden
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. View quote
Montesquieu
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one. View quote
Alexander Pope
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. View quote
Isaac Asimov
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. View quote
Martin Scorsese
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be. View quote
William Hazlitt
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. (Willa Cather)
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool. View quote
George Washington
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible. View quote
George Washington
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. View quote
François Fénelon
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. View quote
William Cowper
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. View quote
Jane Austen
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. View quote
Jane Austen
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. (Plutarch)
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. View quote
Emily Brontë
Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice. View quote
Pierre Trudeau