Our Friends
Nonsense Quotes
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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.] (Quote by - Horace)
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. (Quote by - Charles Krauthammer)
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. (Quote by - Edmond De Goncourt)
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. (Quote by - Theodor Geisel)
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
It's incumbent on those of us who work with the media...to at least cut through some of the nonsense. (Quote by - Jeremy Paxman)
The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good. (Quote by - William Hurlbut)
Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect. (Quote by - Frederick Saunders)
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently. (Quote by - Andrew Young)
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. (Quote by - Catharine MacKinnon)
It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code. (Quote by - Francis Crick)
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? (Quote by - George Eliot)