Reasonable

Famous quotes containing the word reasonable:

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

“How can anyone be interested in war?—that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well- chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it—this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

“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)