Good Sense Quotes - Page 6

• My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

  Madeline Kahn

  Mother, Bohemian, Searchers

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• A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

  Moses ibn Ezra

  Three, Few Words, Fine

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• Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

  William Shenstone

  Hands, Stupidity, Assurance

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.66

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• Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Believe, People, Grace

  "Economist Milton Friedman Dies". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 16, 2006.

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• I like girls with a good sense of humour. Girls who are a lot of fun to be around.

  Corbin Bleu

  Girl, Fun, Humour

  "Zac Efron and Corbin Bleu Dish on High School Musical 3: Senior Year". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.

  Steven Sample

  Average, Suffering, Three

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• I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

  Orestes Brownson

  Character, Attachment, Judgement

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• It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a position and a name. The first requires good sense, but the second demands willpower and great virtue.

  Roman Baldorioty de Castro

  Names, Honor, Way

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• What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

  Horace

  Men, Faces

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• Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Success, Safety

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt”, p.220

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• Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but everywhere a substratum of good sense. It never reflects, but it repents. There is no poetry in it, we may say, nothing regarded in the light of beauty merely, but moral truth is its object. All mortals are convicted by its conscience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Dream, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.327, e-artnow

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• You know, some of the action stuff, I tend to have a pretty good sense of humor about it. Even when I direct and have a lot of pressure, it teaches me to laugh at stuff. I think that comes also from sports, from combat sports, where you've got to learn to laugh at it and take it in stride. Otherwise, you just can't deal with it.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Sports, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.

  Samuel Alito

  Strong, Memories, School

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote "these are WMD's" on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Wmd, People, Pockets

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. May 21, 2007.

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• True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Wisdom, Fashion, Age

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• I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need a clock to play, and I had a sense of when five, ten, twenty minutes had passed. Now I can only play with a clock.

  Z'EV

  Play, Track, Twenties

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think somebody like Wes [Anderson] has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I'm just in Hawaii and Malibu; it's just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff.

  Owen Wilson

  Thinking, Guy, Surfing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.

  Owen Wilson

  Nice, People, Laughing

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• I'm just a dog person. I love dogs very much, especially big ones, hounds, and retrievers. I think they are funny and often have good senses of humor. Plus, they give unconditional love.

  Arthur Bradford

  Dog, Unconditional Love, Thinking

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Intelligent, Imagination, Soul

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.1465, e-artnow

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• I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.

  Taran Killam

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Taran Killam on the SNL Christmas Show". Interview with Terron Moore, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2013.

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• I could never be a lesbian because I have a really good sense of humor.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Sense Of Humor, Good Sense Of Humor

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• I like girls with a good sense of humor.

  Tyler Posey

  Girl, Sense Of Humor, Good Sense Of Humor

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• Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.

  Jon Stewart

  Bombs, Historic

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• I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room.

  Jason Reitman

  Editing, Needs, Way

  Source: collider.com

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