No sensible person ever made an apology. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Sensitive beings are not sensible beings. [ Balzac ]
He that is not sensible of his loss has lost nothing. [ Proverb ]
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. [ Bancroft ]
Man's chief wisdom consists in being sensible of his follies. [ Rochefoucauld ]
His lungs are very sensible, for every thing makes them laugh. [ Proverb ]
A husband is always a sensible man: he never thinks of marrying. [ A. Dumas pere ]
We think very few people sensible except those who are of our opinion. [ Rochefoucauld ]
We are not so sensible of. the greatest health, as of the least sickness. [ Proverb ]
The opposites of apparent chance are constancy and sensible interposition. [ Paley ]
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. [ Fenelon ]
There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate. [ Jane Porter ]
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. [ Beecher ]
The heart is, perhaps, never so sensible of happiness, as after a short separation from the object of its affections. [ Miss May Hamilton ]
Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. [ Goethe ]
A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies: but sensible men will pay no attention to them. [ Froude ]
He that is sensible of no evil but what he feels, has a hard heart; and he that can spare no kindness from himself, has a narrow soul. [ Collier ]
Follies committed by sensible people, extravagances said by clever people, crimes committed by honest people: this is the history of revolutions. [ De Bonald ]
Books give the same turn to our thoughts that company does to our conversation, without loading our memories, or making us even sensible of the change. [ Swift ]
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others. [ Sir W. Temple ]
All religions are more or less mixed with superstitions. Man is not reasonable enough to content himself with a pure and sensible religion, worthy of the Deity. [ Voltaire ]
The fool maintains an error with the assurance of a man who can never be mistaken: the sensible man defends a truth with the circumspection of a man who may be mistaken. [ De Bruix ]
He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. [ William Shakespeare ]
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. [ Diogenes ]
The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward. [ Beecher ]
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so. [ Cecil ]
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects. [ Johnson ]
Experience: in that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed either about external or sensible objects or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. [ John Locke ]
Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army. [ Napoleon I ]