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)
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)
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)
That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense. (Quote by - Jonathan Harris )
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense. (Quote by - Harold Brodkey)
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)
Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare! Punch, brothers! punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare! (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Let's have none of this Tony Blair nonsense. He has cried wolf one too many times with the British public. (Quote by - Charles Kennedy)
There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. (Quote by - Gelett Burgess)
Pure love produces pure nonsense. (Quote by - Jonathan Klinger)
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
Nonsense is an assertion of man''s spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. (Quote by - Aldous Leonard Huxley)
Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited. (Quote by - George)
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. (Quote by - George Santayana)
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. (Quote by - Anton Seidl)
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security. (Quote by - Otto Schily)
There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense. (Quote by - Arthur Scargill)
From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero. Mittens with the fur-side inside, With the fur-side next his fingers So's to keep the hand warm inside. (Quote by - Rev. George Augustus Strong)
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed. (Quote by - Jim Wallis)
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. (Quote by - Warren G. Bennis)
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. (Quote by - George Gallup)
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents. (Quote by - John C. Ransom)
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is. (Quote by - Hugh Grant)
To demand ''sense'' is the hallmark of nonsense; Nature does not make sense; Nothing makes sense (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense. (Quote by - Jim Bolger)
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense. (Quote by - Robert Lee Frost)
For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges, And dullest nonsense has been found By some to be the most profound. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1)
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They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. (Quote by - George Combe)
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense. (Quote by - C. L. R. James)
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. (Quote by - Evita Peron )
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. (Quote by - Roald Dahl)
I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. (Quote by - Mike Tyson)
It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense. (Quote by - Craig David)
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. (Quote by - Anne Sullivan)
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. (Quote by - Anthony Hopkins)
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso )
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. (Quote by - Northrop Frye)
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. (Quote by - Ted Nelson)
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. (Quote by - Gregory Bateson)
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know. (Quote by - Josef Albers)
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! (Quote by - Arthur Hertzberg)
It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change. (Quote by - Angela Merkel)
I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics. (Quote by - Rick Wright)
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city. (Quote by - George Mason)
Buddhas don't practice nonsense. (Quote by - Bodhidharma)
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. (Quote by - Earl Wilson)
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense. (Quote by - Richard Pryor)
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. (Quote by - Karel Capek)
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense. (Quote by - Al D'Amato)
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese. (Quote by - John McGahern)
The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid. (Quote by - David Wells)
Nonsense and beauty have close connections. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. (Quote by - Augustus Hare)
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. (Quote by - Stephen Jay Gould)
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? (Quote by - Jean Kerr)
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. (Quote by - John McCarthy)
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. (Quote by - George Jean Nathan)
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes) (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. (Quote by - Luke Ford )
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense. (Quote by - Bejamin Disraeli)
There's a skin without and a skin within, A covering skin and a lining skin, But the skin within is the skin without Doubled and carried complete throughout. (Quote by - Old Song)
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense? (Quote by - William Pitt)
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard. (Quote by - Alexander Cockburn)
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail. (Quote by - Robert Lloyd)
Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this. (Quote by - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani)
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole. (Quote by - Adam Duritz)
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. (Quote by - Benjamin Britten)
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice. (Quote by - Anthony Hecht)
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all. (Quote by - F. L. Lucas)
'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... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities. (Quote by - Dr Seuss)
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis. (Quote by - Arthur Machen)
People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense. (Quote by - Tracy Kidder)
