By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses…

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

— Anthony Burgess

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of…

— A. W. Tillinghast

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

— Anonymous

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

— David Bohm

“In essence, love makes no sense, In fact, there is more nonsense than sense in love. Great philosophers - Socrates, Plato and Aristotle alike,…

— Devi di Guida

“The language of categories is affectionately known as "abstract nonsense," so named by Norman Steenrod. This term is essentially accurate and not necessarily derogatory:…

— Paolo Aluffi

It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness…

— Horace Walpole

“Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then…

— Joseph Conrad

Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold…

— Harriet Lerner

Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs…

— Anonymous

For he who is not deaf, half a silence is enough.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that…

— Marlee Matlin

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

— Helen Keller

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf…

— Richard Masur

“And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman