#sen

We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#majority #must #return #senate

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#fool #how #know #lie #man

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#children #clothes #drunkard #eat #give

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#aristocratic #atmosphere #common #common sense #live

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

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#entire #nothing #thought #unless #unthinkable

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 resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works. ↗

— David Byrne

#certain #i #implication #less #musician

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch. ↗

— George Byron

#any #common #common sense #fact #had

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ↗

— George Byron

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