Reasonable Man

Famous quotes containing the words reasonable man, reasonable and/or man:

“An act of God was defined as “something which no reasonable man could have expected.””
—A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick)

“... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

“A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling.”
—Edward A. Boyden, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 423-5 (April 1888)