Sensible famous quotes

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Sacrifice #Self #Sensible

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.
-- Anna Held

#People #Skirts #Sensible

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.
-- Aphex Twin

#Hackers #Sensible #Persons

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

#Happiness #Sickness #Sensible

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
-- Charles Fort

#Mind #Sensible #Stills

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

#Thinking #Sensible

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
-- Charlotte Forten Grimke

#Needs #Sensible #Provoking

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.
-- Chrystos

#Depression #Reactions #Sensible

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
-- Douglas Yates

#Relationship #People #Sensible

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Thinking #Sensible

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Advice #Bees #Sensible

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
-- Emily Post

#Neighbor #Sensible

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
-- Francis Bacon

#Beauty #Infinite #Sensible

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.
-- Frank Gaffney

#Energy #Should #Sensible

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
-- George Edward Woodberry

#Nature #Doe #Sensible

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
-- George Washington

#Fool #Sensible

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.
-- Glynis Johns

#Unemployment #Sensible

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Sensible

If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
-- H. P. Lovecraft

#Blank #Sensible

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.
-- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

#Wise #Secret #Sensible

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

#Would Be #Sensible

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.
-- Jasper Carrott

#Genius #Sensible

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#Doctors #Harmony #Sensible

Sensible people find nothing useless.
-- Jean de La Fontaine

#People #Useless #Sensible

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

#People #Useless #Sensible

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

#Attractive #Masculine #Sensible

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.
-- Mark Steel

#Thirty #Sensible

... people miss a great deal by being sensible.
-- Martha Gellhorn

#People #Missing #Sensible

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

#Moving #Towns #Sensible

Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.
-- Michael Eisner

#Creativity #Financial #Sensible

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
-- Mireille Enos

#Dad #Guy #Sensible

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
-- Morris L. Ernst

#Sound #Sensible #Reticence

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

#Parent #Grew #Sensible

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
-- Neil Gaiman

#Advice #Poet #Sensible

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

#Ideas #Accepted #Sensible

I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.
-- Nora May French

#Ideas #People #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.
-- Rebecca West

#Age #Investment #Sensible

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
-- Rumi

#Insane #Calm #Sensible

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Laziness #Sensible

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
-- Stanisław I Leszczyński

#Misery #Sensible

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.
-- Stella McCartney

#Wish #Sometimes #Sensible

I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn
-- T. H. White

#Anarchist #Sensible #Persons

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Purpose #Planning #Sensible

If you refuse to change your job (if you don't like it), the only sensible thing you can do is practice loving it every day.
-- Wayne Dyer

#Jobs #Practice #Sensible

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

#Women #Fencing #Sensible

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
-- William Shenstone

#Infinite #Jest #Sensible

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

#Ridiculous #Source #Sensible

I can't drive, so I don't need a flash car, and I like living at home, so I don't need a mansion. I'm sensible with money. It's not why I act.
-- Georgia Groome

#Home #Car #Sensible

I've always been very sensible with money.
-- Lemar

#Sensible

It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.
-- Paul Ashworth

#Sensible

It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.
-- Martin Lewis

#Mortgage #Should #Sensible

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.
-- Johannes Scotus Eriugena

#Made #Form #Sensible