Good Sense Quotes
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.385
Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.4
It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.47, University of Chicago Press
Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
Samuel Richardson (1810). “The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters”, p.386
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 638-39, quoted on the title page of Broom's Legal Maxims (1911), 1922.
Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.88, Harvard University Press
You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.
Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.121, Scholastic Inc.
Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.488, Knopf Books for Young Readers
1700 Of Chaucer. Fables Ancient and Modern, preface.