Most Sensible Quotes

#1. Sensible men were not eager to submit themselves to the Judgement of the Almighty, and a decisive battle seemed to prove that the victor had God on his side. Most people preferred not to put the Lord's Favour to such a stringent, conclusive test.

Sharon Kay Penman

#2. Perhaps drugging the woman he intended to fall in love with wasn't the accepted method of kindling a passionate romance, yet Archimedes considered it the most sensible way to proceed.

Meljean Brook

#3. Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Richard Whately

#4. The world needs people like you,' Simmon said in the tone of voice that let me know he was turning philosophical. 'You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature.

Patrick Rothfuss

#5. Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance!

Nancy Tellem

#6. There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

Yitzhak Rabin

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

Elizabeth Taylor

#8. Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies.
No sensible capitalist would do that.

Amory Lovins

#11. Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

Jean De La Bruyere

#13. Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

David Crystal

#14. Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

Natalie Angier

#15. Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#17. The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

William Hazlitt

#18. We create our destiny by dreaming bigger than most people would think reasonable, by believing in ourselves more than most people would think sensible, by making decisions that most people would think illogical and continuing to act way beyond the point that most people would have given up.

Andrew Jobling

#19. Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne

#21. A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

William Osler

#22. A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

Warren Buffett

#23. Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

Stephen Leacock

#24. When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

John Lithgow

#25. It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed

Idries Shah

#26. Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

Charlotte Forten Grimke

#27. In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#28. 'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

Johann Most

#29. The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.

Salley Vickers

#30. The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.

Jim Rogers

#31. Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Alexander Pope

#32. I think most Americans would agree that we need sensible solutions that fix our immigration system and deal humanely with aspiring citizens currently in our country. At the same time, these solutions must increase the security of our borders.

Linda Sanchez

#33. The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us..
the worst part is we can't say who is who

Chetan Bhagat

#34. Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#35. Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but what would two middle-aged people do that for? We were sensible enough when we got it.

Maeve Binchy

#36. Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
-Anne Shirley

L.M. Montgomery

#37. In other matters no sensible person will behave so irresponsibly or rest content with such feeble grounds for his opinions and for the line he takes. It is only in the highest and most sacred things that he allows himself to do so.

Sigmund Freud

#38. Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their own, which proceeds from the same reason; that organ being in the strongest man more delicate, than any other part of the body is in the weakest.

Adam Smith

#39. If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.

John Maynard Keynes

#40. 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

#41. As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

Plutarch

#42. Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

Larry Kramer

#43. My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Frances O'Grady

#44. Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.

Kevin D. Williamson

#45. We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.

Andrew Eldritch

#46. You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don't grab the right ideas or don't know what to do with them.

Charlie Munger

#47. An honest, sensible, humane man, ... laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity ... is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.

John Adams

#48. 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

#49. 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.

Beryl Bainbridge

#50. When it comes to fashion, even the most sensible woman is not to be trusted.

Wilbur Smith