People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Where Sense is wanting, every thing is wanting.
When a man is taken in a mystical sense, his qualities are often signified by his actions, and by the circumstances of things about him.
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
There’s this sense that of course you want to be famous. When you’re a performer, of course you want an audience, but it’s very, very different from courting fame.
The quiet sense of something lost.
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me – than any other whatsoever – for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
Much madness is divinest Sense — To a discerning Eye — Much Sense — the starkest Madness — ‘Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail — Assent, and you are sane — Demur — you’re straightway dangerous — And handled with a Chain —
I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.[J’aime beaucoup le bon sens avant tout, peut-être parce que je n’en ai pas.]