Top 100 Good Sense Quotes
#1. Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
Charles Perrault
#2. I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
Victoria Beckham
#3. I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
William Mapother
#4. The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.
Joe Abercrombie
#5. the good sense to fortify himself with the things of the flesh for the struggles of the spirit.
Ellis Peters
#7. It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
Frederick Sanger
#8. My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.
Desmond Tutu
#10. Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world; for everyone believes himself to be so well provided with it that even those who are the hardest to please in every other way do not usually want more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
#11. You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
Anne Carson
#12. Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.
Evan Harris
#14. Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.
Jon Stewart
#15. In her also I found what I liked best - an unfailing, kindly welcome without a hint of sentimentality, unruffled good sense, the unobtrusive talent for making all things at all times as cheerful and comfortable as circumstances allowed.
C.S. Lewis
#16. Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie.
"You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him.
"Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.
Connie Willis
#17. These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense, steadiness, wise speech, and prompt action. But they have a singular turn for homicide; their chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
John Irving
#19. Another demon. This one walked with soft feet like she'd drifted in from the next world and no one had the good sense to send her back.
Leigh Bardugo
#20. I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.
It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.
David Levithan
#21. I went to the actual SVU precinct ... and got a really good sense of what it was like.
Danny Pino
#22. If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
Kate Christensen
#23. Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,
all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
William Cowper
#24. Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.
Werner Herzog
#26. I react badly to fear. I don't usually have the good sense to run, or hide - I just try to smash whatever it is that is making me afraid. It's a primitive sort of thing, and one I don't question too much.
Jim Butcher
#27. A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.
Raymond E. Feist
#28. What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
Horace
#29. If Lucien is determined to have her, he won't let her be sensible. That's the entire point behind seduction. Men use passion to rob gentle bred ladies of their good sense."
-Cedric.
His Wicked Seduction
Lauren Smith
#30. I'm so sick of sitting on this fucking thing," she sighed, finding a comfortable spot. "After they're born, let's burn the couch."
"Or donate it," Aaron said, bringing her a glass of water.
"Don't ruin my destructive groove with your good sense.
Bijou Hunter
#31. [The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
William E. Gladstone
#32. Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
Sydney Smith
#33. What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city.
Darin Strauss
#34. The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.
Frederic Harrison
#35. The world has a harder time breaking a good sense of humor, John Gramm
Natasha Larry
#36. Have good sense, smell the scents, and you will have more cents
Sonya Withrow
#37. Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.
Fred Schneider
#38. happy people have often experienced as much adversity as those who are unhappy. What sets them apart is that they have the good sense to manage their memories in a way that enriches their lives.
Robin S. Sharma
#39. Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
Hugh Nibley
#40. But when it's read another way, the explanation makes perfectly good sense: Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death.
Daniel Quinn
#41. It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#42. Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Horace
#43. It's what happens when you shoot someone," Wayne pointed out. "At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.
Brandon Sanderson
#44. It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.
Carol Ryrie Brink
#45. I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me ...
Mila Kunis
#46. Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
Rene Descartes
#47. It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
Sophocles
#48. For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.
David Hume
#49. That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.
Philippe De Commines
#50. I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
Gordon Gee
#51. He had shrewd, on the spot judgement about human nature. Good sense with good manners and the practice of contentment made up in his view a large part of wisdom.
Theresa Whistler
#52. Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
Jean De La Bruyere
#53. Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.
Hesiod
#54. A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#55. There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.
Chester A. Arthur
#56. I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
Saina Nehwal
#57. Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.
Lord Chesterfield
#58. Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.
James E. Faust
#59. By the standards of magical society they'd fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn't had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves.
Lev Grossman
#60. In times of crisis not one should be counted special. Everyone was human therefore equal to the same misery and misfortune and good luck as everyone else. What happened to the whole 'we gotta stick together' motto? When hard times came-a-knocking, people baled on good sense and decency.
Shelly Crane
#61. It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.
Samuel Johnson
#62. Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Max Beerbohm
#64. Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
Moliere
#65. It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
Michael Crapo
#66. Lust was edging confusion for the lead. Good sense had fallen far behind.
Teri Anne Stanley
#67. Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.
Michael Hanlon
#68. There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
David Hume
#69. When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.
Richard Moe
#70. Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.
Wilhelm Reich
#71. For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
Dolly Parton
#72. I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.
Stanley Tucci
#73. Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#74. I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.
Jennifer Johnston
#75. Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.
Andy Kindler
#76. Dead kings were honored in the Six Kingdoms only insofar as they had the good sense to stop walking around above ground.
Robert Kroese
#77. the Americans have never changed over. They still call today March 6th 1959. Their custom is to put the month before the day. It makes good sense, as the month is more significant than the day.
Sean Gabb
#78. I like spontaneity and intelligence in a girl. Nothing is more attractive to me than someone who has a good sense of who she is and can hold her own in a conversation.
Nathan Adrian
#79. A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
Francois Rabelais
#80. Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Marilyn French
#81. You thank God [for your salvation] because you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.
J.I. Packer
#82. they "come to the business of life & the application of knowledge they find that they are inferior - & all their studies have not given them that practical good sense & mother wisdom & wit which grew up with our grandmothers at the spinning wheel,
Megan Marshall
#83. I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.
Gerard Butler
#84. It struck me there might be a reason why Helena Justina whipped along at such a cracking pace: she did not want to be stuck in the wilderness with my corpse. I thanked Jove for her ruthless good sense. I did not want my corpse to be stuck with her in any case.
Lindsey Davis
#85. What's more, she lacked the good sense to understand how our lives are enriched by the minor interactions that present themselves every day.
Miriam Karmel
#86. Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
Livy
#87. My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction.
Barack Obama
#88. Speak your latent conviction ... Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs love an open fire - they show good sense. It is the heart of any room and should be kindled on the slightest provocation.
Dorothy Draper
#90. Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.
Sebastian Coe
#92. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison
#93. Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
#94. I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Giacomo Casanova
#95. I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.
Katrina Kaif
#96. Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#97. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.
Henry David Thoreau
#98. How vain are all these Glories, all our Pains,
Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty gains:
That Men may say, when we the Front-box grace,
Behold the first in Virtue, as in Face!
Alexander Pope
#99. Mum says be careful of boys who never take anything seriously. Dad says a boy needs a good sense of humor to get through his love life. Jazz says my dad must need a sense of humor to get through his love life if he's living in the shed
Cath Crowley
#100. Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.
Danny Masterson
