Sensible Quotes - Page 20

• It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species; and, therefore, though he will not be less sensible of pain by being told that others are equally tormented, he will at least be freed from the temptation of seeking, by perpetual changes, that ease which is no where to be found, and though his diseases still continue, he escapes the hazard of exasperating it by remedies.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Men, Knowing

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.310

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• Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Taken, Liberty, Crowds

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• One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Music, March, Fatigue

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• Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.

  Danielle Steel

  Falling In Love, People, Feelings

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• The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Life, World, Idiot

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• He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

  John Boyne

  Fighting, Animal, Mind

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• That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Essentials, Astonishment, Unexpected

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace, Sake, Helping

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.68

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• If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Errors, Wish

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.21, First Avenue Editions

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• A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

  George Washington

  Fool

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.102, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Rights, Want

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.591

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• Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race of inferior beings condemned by nature to perpetual pupilage, and fruitlessly endeavouring to remedy their barrenness by incessant cultivation, or succour their feebleness by subsidiary strength. They presume that none would be more industrious than they, if they were not more sensible of deficiences; and readily conclude, that he who places no confidence in his own powers owes his modesty only to his weakness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Men, Race

  Samuel Johnson (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.83

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• Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flames, People, Common Sense

  "Fictional character: Lord Henry Wotton". "Dorian Gray", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

  Edward Abbey

  Suicide, Alternatives, Circumstances

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

  Neil Gaiman

  Honesty, Lying, Believe

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.256, Hachette UK

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• Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Writing, Men

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• Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Business, Hate, Stress

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• In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Wish, Done, Situation

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2012). “Sorcery & Cecelia: Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot”, p.112, Open Road Media

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• To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

  Diogenes

  Friendship, Men, Should Have

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• In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Knowledge, Science, Ninety Nine

  Lincoln Steffens (1936). “Lincoln Steffens speaking”

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• Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my devotions. They did not come easily or spontaneously, and they very seldom brought with them any strong sensible satisfaction. Nevertheless the work of performing them ended in a profound and fortifying peace: a peace that was scarcely perceptible, but which deepened and which, as my passions subsided, became more and more real, more and more sure, and finally stayed with me permanently.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Strong, Real

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• The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, People, Drink

  Elizabeth Taylor (2015). “A View of the Harbour”, p.86, New York Review of Books

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• Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.

  Alexander Elder

  Successful, Thinking, Ice

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• "As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Religion, Morality

  "Endymion". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 81, 1880.

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• The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Secret, Finding Yourself, Criticism

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