Sensible Quotes - Page 26

• A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Two, Attention

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• The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Stars, Silence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.5

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• Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth.
  [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Women, Blue, Long

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• Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friends, Men, Doe

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1866). “The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Venetia. Tancred”

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

  Jane Gardam

  Would Be, Things To Do

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• Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

  Jaime Winstone

  Focus, Needs, Kind

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• Sure, you can say nuclear power is somewhat less carbon-intensive than burning fossil fuels for energy; beating your children to death with a club will prevent them from getting hit by a car. Ravaging the Earth by one irreparable means is not a sensible way to prevent it from being destroyed by another. There are alternatives. We should choose them and use them.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Children, Mean, Car

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• The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Cutting, Sea

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• Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

  Edward Albee

  Creative, Black, Magic

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.165, Da Capo Press

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• The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

  William Shenstone

  Infinite, Jest, Discourse

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.176

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• It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many other germs – a mass of other germs – and those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. To judge the living man by the death germs which the autopsy reveals in the corpse – and which he may have carried in him since his birth – is that very sensible?

  Victor Serge

  Men, Years, Judging

  "Memoirs of a Revolutionary".

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• In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.

  Dale Carnegie

  Writing, Long, Decision

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.45, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.

  Clive James

  Horse, Enough, Stage

  Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

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• The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Divorce, Moments, Given

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.606, Library of Alexandria

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• 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, Supposing

  Leigh Hunt (1840). “The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed”, p.73

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• Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.

  Herman Wouk

  Strong, Moving, Men

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• 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.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Pregnancy, Sound, Fuel

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

  Jean de La Fontaine

  People, Useless, Senses

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• The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, People, Triumph

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.163, John Wiley & Sons

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• ... people miss a great deal by being sensible.

  Martha Gellhorn

  People, Missing, Deals

  Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The View from the Ground”, p.223, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

  Alan Watts

  People, Intellectual, Philosopher

  Alan Watts (2011). “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”, p.73, New World Library

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• No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
  [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Change, Men, Mind

  "Epistolæ ad Atticus", XVI. 7. 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96,

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• Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, Men, Drunk

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.64

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• One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Government, Blame, Server

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

  Jack Vance

  Pertinent Questions, Assuming, Wit

  Jack Vance (2000). “Rhialto the Marvellous”, p.720, Macmillan

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