#sensible

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#ends #family #first #friends #gratification

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

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. ↗

— William James

#beneficial #copy #guide #interaction #occur

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#any #character #conduct #consistent #could

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing. ↗

— Tim Vine

#access #childlike #comic #get #important

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

#agree #agreed #character #control #evidence

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#agreement #anyone #because #care #deeply

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