Top Sensible Quotes
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges Clemenceau
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
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Harry Seidler
Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.
Jan Schakowsky
To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
Ellis Peters
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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
Chauncey Wright 
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken
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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
John Lithgow
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Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
Walter Ulbricht
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
Joseph Priestley
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I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.
Richard D. James
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As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.
Chris Van Hollen
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Popular Sensible Authors
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSamuel ButlerH. L. Mencken AristotleFrancis BaconWilliam JamesCharles Caleb ColtonW. H. AudenJames A. BaldwinPaul CezanneP. J. O'RourkeRon ChernowWalter LippmannAlfred Lord TennysonGustav Mahler
Isaac AsimovCharles de SecondatNathaniel HawthorneCharles de MontesquieuMilan KunderaGeorge WhitefieldMartin ScorseseRobin TrowerMary WesleyJohn LithgowRichard Le GallienneGrover ClevelandLawrence DurrellHarold BrodkeyAnna Friel
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