I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
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.
Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.
I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.
The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
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.
The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules!
. . . virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.
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.
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.
Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr. , Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens. ]
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.
If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.