Best Nonsense Words
777 Nonsense quotes by 572 unique authors
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The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.
— Kathy Acker
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War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
— John Dos Passos
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To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.
— Unknown Author
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You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I…
— Pat Robertson
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Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.
— Jane Austen
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If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal…
— David Foster Wallace
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The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair and it's not…
— Lou Dobbs
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all.…
— Quentin Crisp
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Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be…
— Unknown Author
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila,…
— Robert Barron
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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
— Hafez
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Rather than put ourselves down continually, we must work hard to concentrate on our positives, focusing on that which makes us unique and likable. We…
— Unknown Author
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Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within…
— Hafez
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Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases…
— Gautama Buddha
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It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have…
— David Keating
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A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it…
— Enoch Powell
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You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed…
— Larry Ellison
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Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves…
— Robert Penn Warren
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I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The…
— Colin Dexter
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Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined…
— David Hume
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God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name.…
— Betty Williams
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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.
— Warren Buffett
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The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years…
— Alexander Grothendieck
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