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Sense: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Sense is the Father.— DE LA BRUYÈRE — The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Vol. II. Ch. II,

He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.— DICKENS — Pickwick Papers. Ch. I.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.— DRYDEN — Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. I. L. 868.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.— POPE- — Moral Essays. Ep. IV. L. 43.

'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrows all her rays from sense.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. IV. L. 179.

What thin partitions sense from thought divide.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 226.

Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night VIII. L. 1,254.

Entre le bon sens et le bon goût il y a la différence de la cause à son effet. Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect.— LA BRUYÈRE — Les Caractères. XII.