reasonable quotes

Milord, in that case an Act of God was defined as 'something which no reasonable man could have expected'.

- SirA(lan) P(atrick) Herbert
  Uncommon Law,'Act of God'.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figurethe figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

- SirA(lan) P(atrick) Herbert
  Uncommon Law,'The Reasonable Man'.

Women would rather be right than be reasonable.

- (Frederic) Ogden Nash
  Good Intentions,'Frailty, Thy Name is a Misnomer'.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying toadapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Reason'.