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  • I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty.

    Animal   Men   Half  
    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.183
  • Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

    Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.8
  • Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.

  • Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.

  • People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.

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

  • I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?

  • Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

    Queens   Son   Long  
    The Brothers Grimm, Yei Theodora Ozaki, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, Alexander Afanasiev, J. Macgowan, Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve, Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang, Charles Perrault, and many others “Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know”, Slavamax BVBA
  • 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.

  • The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.

    Believe   People   Easy  
  • Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

    Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.22
  • I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors; and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution.

    Army   Errors   People  
    Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.153, Cambridge University Press
  • Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

    Horse   Thinking   Race  
  • It's unwise to presume on the future... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always do later the good we can do now.

  • If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.

    Doubt   Mind   Devil  
  • I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

    Color   White   People  
    "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.
  • Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

    Evan Harris (1996). “The Quit”, Fireside
  • There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

    Order   Self   Habit  
    First annual message, 1881.
  • Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

  • Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

    Life   Love Is   Thinking  
  • Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

    Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.377
  • She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

    Jane Austen (1833). “Sense and Sensibility: A Novel”, p.119
  • Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

    Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
  • Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him. "Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.

    Children   Play   Littles  
  • Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

  • A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

    Heart   Circles   Envy  
    Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.367, Random House
  • For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

  • Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

    Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press
  • We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

    Home   Men   Pet  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.388
  • 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.

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