Reasonable

Famous quotes containing the word reasonable:

“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)

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

“People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)