sensible behavior Quotes

Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.

People shouldn't be teaching if they break appointments, if they behave in an irresponsible way. I try to be down-to-earth and sensible. I want students to know I'm going to work for all of them and not play favorites and that I'm really going to do my work.

I try and strike a balance between being sensible and sensitive.

When I hold a gun, I know how to be sensible about it. I'm not holding it to wild out or just to shoot somebody because I'm mad at him. There's responsibility in buying that gun, and part of it is dealing with it like a man, and not dealing with it like an idiot, and getting behind iron bars for unnecessary reasons.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

Fools are not mad folks.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard.” - Al to Rachel

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

I don't want to be the crazy showbiz family. When I walk into the PTA meetings with my sensible flat shoes and my sensible short wig, I do not look crazy.

He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.