Reasonable
Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.
Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking, or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.
Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper; as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.
Reasonably; tolerably.
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Reasonable Quotations
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret Thatcher
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
Mae West
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Jim Rohn
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Ogden Nash
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
Stephen Fry
Reasonable Translations
reasonable in Afrikaans is matig
reasonable in Danish is fornuftig
reasonable in Dutch is matig, gematigd, bescheiden
reasonable in Latin is oportet, oportet
reasonable in Spanish is prudencial
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