Quotes 1 till 20 of 67.
-
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
-
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.
-
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
-
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
-
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
-
All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was passé at the time.
-
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
-
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
-
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
-
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
-
Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
-
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-
For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex. This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
-
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
-
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
-
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
-
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
-
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
-
I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.
All no-nonsense famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com
