Henry David Thoreau Quotes

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

Who knows what the right time to get married is?

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

I think I was smart to marry him. I think that's my smartness, that I chose the right guy.

Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

I don't really have a problem with just wanting sex. Never have. Even when I was a virgin and wanted to marry the first guy who I slept with, I never passed any judgments about that. But now I'm done [with dating around].

I've been married for 49 years. Where have I failed?

The secret to a great marriage is having a great husband.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

A good friend just told me that the key to a successful marriage was to argue naked! I'm gonna do that from now on, when that rarely happens.

Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.