A Quote by Herman Melville

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville
American - Novelist
August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

When you turn 18 in the United States, you should be automatically registered to vote. Ideally, this sensible reform would be a federal law affecting all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and American territories, but our federal government stopped being sensible a very long time ago.

Shaun King

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Bertrand Russell

I think calling for more women in every aspect of this industry is a sensible thing.

Alan Taylor

Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in a lively representation of ideas assembled together, gives every sensible object those heightening touches, and that striking imagery, which is unknown to men of slower apprehensions: wit being to sensible objects, what light is to bodies; it does not merely show them as they are in themselves: it gives an adventitious colour, which is not a property inherent in them: it lends them beauties which are not their own.

Jeremiah Seed

If you refuse to change your job (if you don't like it), the only sensible thing you can do is practice loving it every day.

Wayne Dyer

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

W. H. Auden

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

Rudyard Kipling

Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.

Radhika Apte

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

Douglas Alexander

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Charles Dickens

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

Albert Schweitzer

It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts, but most of us prefer not to be sensible.

Anna Held

The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.