Quotes with nonsense

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
  • To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
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  • Aldous Huxley 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anthony Hecht 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.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Joseph Addison Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Charles Lamb 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Samuel Butler All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • David Bailey All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was passé at the time.
    David Bailey
    English fashion and portrait (1938 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli 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.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • C. S. Lewis Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • William Pitt Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
    William Pitt
    British statesman (1759 - 1806)
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  • Bill Drayton Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Camille Paglia 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.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Robert Frost Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley 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.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • William Somerset Maugham 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.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Augustus Hare Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Albert Einstein Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Burt Rutan 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.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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