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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

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

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”

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

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

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

"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.

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

"Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book compiled by Kate Louise Roberts, www.bartleby.com. 1922.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.88, Harvard University Press

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.

Bill Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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.

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.488, Knopf Books for Young Readers

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

1700 Of Chaucer. Fables Ancient and Modern, preface.