Nonsense Quotes · Page 24

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

— Anthony Burgess

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

— Hafez

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

— Abraham Lincoln

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

— Jeremy Bentham

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

— Anonymous

“Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense.”

— Ray Bradbury

A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right…

— Harriet Morgan

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

— Evita Peron

I'm quite a romantic person - everyone loves being treated a little bit special, no matter how hard you are on the…

— Sharleen Spiteri

I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to…

— David Lange

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because…

— Frederick Lenz

I think Steve King is absolutely wrong and I just hope that we can try to reach higher ground, because when you…

— Steve King

Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A…

— Mark Twain

In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is…

— Stendhal

“[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson] An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted)…

— Nicolas Walter

There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have…

— Anna Quindlen

“Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me. Their names are engraved on empty graves, their books are dummies, they are…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense,…

— Kurt Lewin

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These…

— Joseph Addison

Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just…

— T. H. White

We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go,…

— Alain de Botton

As the field of coaching finds its way to becoming a mature discipline, James Flaherty's dedicated field research, study, and sound articulation…

— Richard Strozzi-Heckler

It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense.

— Craig David

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking…

— Alfred North Whitehead

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait…

— Ursula Burns

“My dreams may be nonsense too,but I do not want to run the risk of not following them”

— Anamika Mishra

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

— William Morris

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

— Georg Solti

“My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common…

— Anonymous

“Everything he talked about had a kind of logic to it, but so do many things that are nonsense.”

— Scott Adams

I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“He could do nothing but twist his moustache, drink, and chatter the most inept nonsense that can possibly be imagined.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's so weird to think that before Twitter, all of this nonsense just stayed in people's heads.

— Nikhil Saluja

I don't hold with all the washing, grumbled Eeyore. This modern Behind-the-ears nonsense.

— Eeyore

You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and…

— Charles R. Swindoll

We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.

— Maxime Bernier

Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.

— William Cobbett