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Letter "R" » Reasonable man
«An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected..»
«Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
| Keywords:
reasonable, Reasonable man, reasoning
«And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning -- ''enemies of society,'' as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!»
Author: Georges Bernanos
| Keywords:
blasphemer, blasphemers, convict, felon, felons, hunted, include, inconvenient, in advance, layman, laymen, penal, profane, Reasonable man
«A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.»
Author: Lord Hailsham
(Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Doubt
| Keywords:
be given, differ, Reasonable Doubt, Reasonable man
«A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
dissension, dock, docked, docks, gamble, homicide, homicides, International, noose, nooses, promoted, Reasonable man, stake, surer, willfully
«Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.»
Author: American Proverb
| Keywords:
Reasonable man
«How can people hold these opinions? What joy can we find in the expectation of nothing but hopeless misery? What reason for boasting that we are in impenetrable darkness? And how can it happen that the following argument occurs to a reasonable man?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
boasting, expectation, hopeless, impenetrable, occurs, Reasonable man
«He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
creature, pull, pull out, quench, quenches, quenching, reasonable, Reasonable man
«Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.»
«One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
reasonable, Reasonable man, reasoned
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