While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
H. G. Wells

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
John Milton

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?
John Clayton

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
C. S. Forester

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
Teddy Wilson

Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Ogden Nash

Yeah, I guess everyone's had a reasonable amount of sex in their lives, some less than others.
Josh Silver

You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers.
Claude Nicollier

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
Emil Zatopek

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
Charlotte Bronte

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
Jaclyn Smith