#sensible

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

#commitments #courageous #debt #deficit #future

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#businesses #fighting #first #know #leave

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#before #clear #done #god #him

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#always #destroy #hardly #i #illusions

I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#feeling #girl #going #got #i

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#before #blame #fathers #juliet #know

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#cannot #exchange #i #like #live

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#i wish #less #sensible #sometimes #were

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#baseball #english #italian #just #main

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. ↗