Sensible Quotes

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

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.

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

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

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

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

Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

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

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.