quotes about Sensible
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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
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 -
I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.
-- Aphex Twin -
We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
-- Charles Fort -
Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.
-- Charles KennedySource : "Gently does it?". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.
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Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
-- Charlotte Forten Grimke -
Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.
-- Chrystos -
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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
-- Douglas Yates -
I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
-- Edmund Hillary -
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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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 -
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
-- George Washington -
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It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.
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I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
-- Gustav Mahler -
If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
-- H. P. LovecraftSource : "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 71), 2006.
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Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.
-- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa -
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I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.
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I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.
-- Jasper CarrottSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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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 HuntSource : Leigh Hunt (1840). “The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed”, p.73
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As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.
-- Mark SteelSource : Mark Steel (2001). “Reasons to be Cheerful: From Punk to New Labour Through the Eyes of a Dedicated Troublemaker”
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... people miss a great deal by being sensible.
-- Martha GellhornSource : Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The View from the Ground”, p.223, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
-- Mary Wesley -
Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.
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My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
-- Mireille EnosSource : "Mireille Enos Is Killing Us". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. April 15, 2012.
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A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
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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 -
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
-- Nigel Farage -
I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.
-- Nora May FrenchSource : "George Sterling, the Piedmontese restaurant connection" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. April 5, 2017.
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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 -
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 -
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
-- StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„skiSource : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.162
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I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn
-- T. H. White -
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 -
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 -
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No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
-- Wilkie CollinsSource : Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.112, Courier Corporation
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The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
-- William Shenstone -
The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.
-- Barry Webster -
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 GroomeSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I've always been very sensible with money.
-- LemarSource : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.
-- Paul Ashworth -
It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.
-- Martin LewisSource : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
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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 -