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Would you think I was joking if I said that you can put a clock back, and that if the clock is wrong it is often a very sensible thing to do?
— C.S. Lewis
If one is sensible, if one is reasonable, if one never allows oneself a base thought or an envious emotion, naturally one says: Let's make a foursome!
— Doris Lessing
I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.
— Margaret Atwood
All sensible investing is value investing
— Charlie Munger
Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
— Charlotte Forten Grimke
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?
— Ford Madox Ford
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
— Lord Chesterfield
Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.
— Stephen Mangan
All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.
— Thomas Jefferson
This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.
— Digby Jones, Baron Jones Of Birmingham
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are too sensible a girl , Lizzy, to fall in love merely because you are warned against it.
— Jane Austen
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
— Charles De Secondat
It felt as if there were a larger, terribly curious Blue inside her that was about to bust out of the smaller, more sensible Blue that held her.
— Maggie Stiefvater
The poet made eating salad with your fingers seem to be the only natural and sensible thing to do.
— Sylvia Plath
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.
— Tim Vine
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
A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
— Clive James
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
— George Washington
The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.
— Jay McInerney
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
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
— Thomas Carlyle
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
— Wilkie Collins
You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.
— Julian Assange
It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
— John Henry Newman
And Ruth was the last person to whom a sensible Indian would hand a weapon.
— Caroline B. Cooney
A grown person in Tahiti has an eating hour allotted to him twice a day, at 10 A.M. and 5 P.M.
— Charles Warren Stoddard
Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible ... then may the Devil take you!
— Albert Einstein
It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is your own will to understand things, that makes you sensible.Education is just a fair chance.
— Syed Arshad
I have a family full of quirky people. Someone has to be sensible so all of you can enjoy being reckless weirdos.
— Ilona Andrews
Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society's accepted normalcy
— Natasha Tsakos
Good and evil are silly lies, nonsense put forth to plague honest sensible men.
— George R R Martin
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
— Terry Pratchett
Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.
— Norm MacDonald
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
No sensible person would prefer a computer screen to a well printed page for reading text
— James Monaco
He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.
— Chanakya
Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behaviour.
— Joe Abercrombie
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
I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.
— Justin Townes Earle
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
— W. H. Auden
All good looks are a snare. They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.
— Oscar Wilde
This was distressing. She felt like she'd done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was sensible.
— Maggie Stiefvater
A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.
— Mary Lascelles
We don't do sensible things. This is America.
— Bill Maher
In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.
— Patricia C. Wrede
Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.
— Verghese Kurien
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
When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible - and much quicker - to cry alone.
— Caitlin Moran
I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side, reining you in.
— Nick Park
A woman who would make his dreams hers and allow him to be part of hers. One who was kind and gentle. Loving and tender. Sensible.
— Debbie Macomber
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
— Neil Gaiman
There is nothing so unsure as the plans we make that rely on the sensible behavior of another human being.
— Steven Saylor
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the
mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop. — Vernon Howard
mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop. — Vernon Howard
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
— Alexander Pope
Sensible. Conservative and sensible and mature and *wrong*. Very much in character with Joanne.
— Octavia E. Butler
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
— George Edward Woodberry
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process
it is, after all, black magic. — Edward Albee
it is, after all, black magic. — Edward Albee
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.
— Mason Cooley
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. — Friedrich Nietzsche
that is, for his age
so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You don't need a long beard to be a sage;
you need to be teachable.
You don't need gray hair to be wise;
you need to be sensible. — Matshona Dhliwayo
you need to be teachable.
You don't need gray hair to be wise;
you need to be sensible. — Matshona Dhliwayo
In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.
— Warren Buffett
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
— T. S. Eliot
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
— Apuleius
[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?
— Chinua Achebe
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don't let fear turn possibility into certainty.
— Mark Lawrence
I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
— Jerome K. Jerome
I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.
— Jeanette Winterson
The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The more you talk, the less you'll have to say.
The more you listen, the more sensible will be what you say. — Ralph Nader
The more you listen, the more sensible will be what you say. — Ralph Nader
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.
— Linda Wells
I live for the few minutes I can talk with a sensible human being, but every time I do, I feel worse than before.
— James A. Michener
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It almost sounds sensible when you say it," Prince First-Born Splendor said. "Even though I know better.
— Michael Swanwick
I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.
— Robin Trower
Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.
— Jay Kordich
I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise
— Kelly Hoppen
Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
— Albert Camus