The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

- Eden Phillpotts

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

- Jane Austen

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

- Isaac Asimov

See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.

- Henry Grunwald

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

- Haile Gebrselassie

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

- Glynis Johns

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

- Gustav Mahler

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

- Emily Post

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

- A. A. Milne

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

- Edmund Hillary

We have sensible fans and sensible policies.

- David Gill

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

- Dick Cavett

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

- Claire Tomalin

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

- Christopher Walken

Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.

- Charles Kennedy

Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

- Charles Kennedy

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.

- Andrew Eldritch

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

- Adam Davidson