Quotes About Sensible

Do you believe in ghosts, Dim?" "Certainly not: but like every sensible man, I'm afraid of them. Why do you ask?

Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.

By all means. The first three sensible words that you have uttered since you entered this room, Watson

Good days are granted to sensible people, but the grandest of days are enjoyed by those who dare to act unwisely.

what Russell called a 'logical construction out of aggregates of facts. (This does not mean that all statements about the average are sensible or useful: as has been said, the average person has one testicle and one breast.)

My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them." "I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

She felt a glow of warm friendliness towards her, perhaps because of her rather plain, good-humoured face, her sensible felt hat, her not particularly well-cut tweed suit and her low-heeled shoes. Nothing from the 'best houses' here—all was as it should be in a clergyman's wife.

I always try to be reasonable and effective.

I'm quite reasonable and level-headed.

My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.

I think I'm perfectly reasonable.

We are for reasonable and sensible gun ownership so long as it's responsible in the way that criminals can't get it.

I'm not reckless. I was never reckless.

I'm a lot of things, but I'm not reckless.

I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.

I believe if we and the Mexicans make a very sensible trade agreement, the Mexican peso will recover quite a lot.

To be clear, aiming to reduce the national debt in the long term and running small surpluses when the economy is operating close to full capacity is what I mean when I talk about seeking to 'balance the books' - a sensible approach.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Now, you would hardly credit it, but my wife believes every fairy-tale that ever was written. I cannot account for it. She is a most sensible woman in everything else." "But should not that make you treat her belief with something of respect, though you cannot share in it yourself?

my wife believes every fairy-tale that ever was written. I cannot account for it. She is a most sensible woman in everything else. But should not that make you treat her belief with something of respect, though you cannot share in it yourself?

My mother declared that I was so sensible that they were not called upon to treat me like a child. The poor woman did not realize that she herself was much more of a child than I.