Nonsense Quotes

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

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

Robert Lloyd

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Joseph Addison

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Isaac Barrow

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.

Horace Walpole

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.

David Wells

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

Ann Coulter

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Gelett Burgess

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.

George Combe

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Vladimir Nabokov

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Edmond De Goncourt

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

Paul Rees

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
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