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Sensible Quotes

... people miss a great deal by being sensible.

Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The View from the Ground”, p.223, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.52, Editorial MAXTOR

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.102, Rowman & Littlefield

I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

T.H. White (1988). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.124, University of Texas Press

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.45, Penguin UK

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.387, Penguin

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

"Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 71), 2006.