At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

And, what is worse, the reader often shares the writer’s prejudices, and is far too well pleased with his conclusions to examine either his premises or his reasoning. Stand on a barrel in the streets of Bagdad, and say in a loud voice, ‘Twice two is four, and ginger is hot in the mouth, therefore Mohammed is the prophet of God’, and your logic will probably escape criticism; or, if anyone should by chance criticise it, you could easily silence him by calling him a Christian dog.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it’s reasonable considering I only want more money

In short, if your average voter had five key issues in mind, scored each candidate on them, and weighted them in order of importance, it was easy to understand how perfectly reasonable and rational people might have voted for Donald Trump without being deplorable bigots.

He is aware that he feels a vague respect for the woman. Mendoza, at least, had never done the reasonable thing, never settled for less, but held to her one insane passion even as it had dragged her into the flames. Such a valuable quality in a pawn.

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’tis time to part

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.

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully 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 mens lives should not stake their own.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.

Don’t we look good together? There’s a reason why they watch all night long

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, ‘Is it reasonable?’

Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh.

With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It’s time to march forward! Let’s be confident and positive!

Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

I still want to be myself, I still want to put my opinions out there or whatever, I just really want people to take my music serious.

Now were he impostor and called himself prince, look you that would be natural; that would be reasonable. But lived ever an impostor yet, who, being called prince by the king, prince by the court, prince by all, denied his dignity and pleaded against his exaltation? No! By the soul of St. Swithin, no! This is the true prince, gone mad.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.