Reasonable

Famous quotes containing the word reasonable:

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“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)

“Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead of persuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)