reasonable quotes

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

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

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

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

Women would rather be right than be reasonable.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  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.

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

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