Reasonable

Famous quotes containing the word reasonable:

    It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    Titania. What, wilt thou hear some music, my sweet love?
    Bottom. I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let’s have the tongs and the bones.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which few trustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)