Zitat des Tages über Guter Sinn / Good Sense:
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.
Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.
If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.
Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
I just like boys who are good-looking, really! I like people who are tall with a good sense of style. My faves are the indie look, the smart look or the surfer look.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Obviously, I'm going to be embarrassing to the kid. There's just no way not. I just hope the kid has a really good sense of humor... My husband's very serious - he doesn't find me funny at all - so I'm hoping the kid is like, 'Mom is hilarious!' That'd be really great.
I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
I was the classic killer. I always played an angry man. I think it was because I used to really be like that - I was hostile. And because I had a good sense of theatrical truth, I used my anger and rebelliousness and just went with it. Anger was just a part of me.
I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.
I have a pretty good sense of direction. And if I get lost, I just act like I know where I'm going.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
You have got to have a good sense of humor, you have got to be tough, and you have got to know how to dress.
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
The Muslims in the Cape are associated with having a very good sense of humor.
Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
I have a good sense of direction.
England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost.
As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.