Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.” — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses. — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
“Our own path, whatever we aspire to, will in some ways be defined by the amount of nonsense we are willing to… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Don't waste any of your precious time or energy on negativity. There's no time for that nonsense.” — Comic Strip Mama Copy Share Image
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
As for the criticism we receive, you know, even Mr. [Donald] Trump's team criticize us. For instance, one of the participants or… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a… — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
House Democrats stand united in our defense of children, seniors, and the disabled, who disproportionately are the largest recipients of SNAP benefits.… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more… — Rocky Anderson Copy Share Image
One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“How much nonsense can we take in our lives? And is there any way we can escape it? No, there is not.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The young look up to me as their feeder, said Alex. Well, they can go look for another trough. I'm through with… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I tried a couple of pop writers - none of the big, big, big ones - but it didn't work for me.… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
Sure I do a lot of jokes about Anne Frank. But when you do those jokes, it makes people remember what happened… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“Nonsense!" said the Emperor—but in a kindly, sympathetic tone. "Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I complained about the gimmicks. All the nonsense and garbage. After a while I just said I would not wrestle with the… — Bruno Sammartino Copy Share Image
You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair… — Lou Dobbs Copy Share Image
... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
![“As for the criticism we receive, you know, even Mr. [Donald] Trump's team criticize us. For instance, one of the participants or members of his team claimed that Russia was giving money to the Clintons through some funds and that in fact Russia is controlling the Clinton family. This is nonsense.” quote by Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9a0/vladimir-putin-261_clinton_as-for-the-criticism-we-receive-you-know_3163150.jpg)
![“I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he]…” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7ff/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_boys_i-like-my-boy-with-his-endless-sweet-sol_2801205.png)
![“Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear - particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the…” quote by Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d63/thomas-szasz-3801_confused_like-karl-kraus-wittgenstein-was-seldom_2910084.jpg)
![“Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these questions ... It was clear that in the United States…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d65/anonymous-1_civilization_why-do-they-americans-quarrel-why-do-the_912675.jpg)
![“It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a86/christopher-hitchens-117_beautiful_it-s-los-angeles-mostly-full-of-nonsense_10462.jpg)
