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Pure love produces pure nonsense.

Jonathan Klinger

To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

C.S. Lewis

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.

Stephen Jay Gould

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

Crane Brinton

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Samuel Butler

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work, I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

Thomas Jefferson

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action

Bertrand Russell

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Henry Adams

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

E. M. Forster

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Dr. Seuss

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

George Santayana

A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men.

Willy Wonka

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

Frederick Saunders

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Michel Montaigne

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Aldous Huxley

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.

Horace

No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Michael Eyquen

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Sir Max Beerbohm

Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.

George Santayana

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.

Robertson Davies

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lamb

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