No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion. [. . . ] The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.
The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules!
The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
Your fate is writ clear;you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since! How odd!Charles himself once said that to me, or something like it! There is nothing odd in it; any sensible man must say it!
The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.
Such a wife as I want. . . must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have strong gun laws. Why? Because we don't have sensible gun legislation.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.
A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr. , Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens. ]
We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.