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)

“We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.”
—Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)

“Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)