#sensible

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#german #harmony #more #others #persons

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#descriptions #go #i #make #paradise

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected. ↗

— Albert Speer

#army #before #being #bring #catastrophe

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity. ↗

— Sa'Di

#insensible #man #prosperity #relish #tasted

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#find #forget #literature #me #pleaded

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#alert #am #aware #bestows #contentment

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

#awry #budget #family #go #household

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#insane #man #must #order #reasonably

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center. ↗

— Cyrus Vance

#center #dead #diplomatic #diplomatic relations #finally

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#energy #lot #neurosis #novel #really