Forgive me my nonsense as I
also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
Robert Frost
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that
matter.
Sir Max Beerbohm
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a
picture in a museum.
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought
than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw
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. This idea that love
overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To
love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Quentin Crisp
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned,
but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin Franklin
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never
have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical.
Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build
your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast
majority by adequate government action.
Bertrand Russell
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking
you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare
honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be
got by it.
Charles Dickens
All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was passé at the time.
David Bailey
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
Eric Butterworth
The six senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence,
nonsense and stupidity.
Carl William Brown
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Frank Gelett Burgess
School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human
existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant
ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't
take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed
into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he
learns it or not.
H. L. Mencken
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage
sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George Eliot
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to
be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final
blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the
adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely
strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a
cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will
not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of
literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old
values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.
George Steiner
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible
jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself
how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give
reputation to such nonsense as this?
Thomas Jefferson
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater
nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler
Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
George Santayana
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk
sense. Can he talk nonsense?
William Pitt
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put
on the troubled seas of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think
they can talk sense.
Robert Frost
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that
matter.
Sir Max Beerbohm
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a
picture in a museum.
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought
than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw
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. This idea that love
overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To
love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Quentin Crisp
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned,
but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin Franklin
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never
have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical.
Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build
your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast
majority by adequate government action.
Bertrand Russell
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I
should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are
wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was
they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
W. Somerset Maugham
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only
vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a
host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
Phyllis Mcginley
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense
respected.
Charles Lamb
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
Edgar Watson Howe
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain
cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at
life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh
at all of life's realities.
Dr. Seuss
Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
Otto Schuwdrmer
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be
made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense,
or indulge in sheer diabolism.
Aldous Huxley
Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God,
never.
Hans Richter
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense
out of a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the
refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of
existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that
nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of
printing.
Benjamin Disraeli
Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense,
down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances,
and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
W. H. Auden
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's
deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of
truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Northrop Frye
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think
they can talk sense.
Robert Frost
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that
matter.
Sir Max Beerbohm
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a
picture in a museum.
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought
than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw
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. This idea that love
overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To
love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Quentin Crisp
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned,
but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin Franklin
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never
have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical.
Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build
your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast
majority by adequate government action.
Bertrand Russell
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I
should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are
wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was
they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
W. Somerset Maugham
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only
vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a
host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
Phyllis Mcginley
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense
respected.
Charles Lamb
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
Edgar Watson Howe
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of
a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
Dr. Seuss
Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
Otto Schuwdrmer
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be
made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense,
or indulge in sheer diabolism.
Aldous Huxley
Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God,
never.
Hans Richter
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense
out of a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the
refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of
existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that
nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of
printing.
Benjamin Disraeli
Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense,
down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances,
and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
W. H. Auden
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's
deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of
truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Northrop Frye
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think
they can talk sense.
Robert Frost
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that
matter.
Sir Max Beerbohm
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a
picture in a museum.
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought
than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw
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. This idea that love
overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To
love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Quentin Crisp
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned,
but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin Franklin
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never
have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical.
Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build
your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast
majority by adequate government action.
Bertrand Russell
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I
should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are
wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was
they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
W. Somerset Maugham
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only
vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a
host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
Phyllis Mcginley
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense
respected.
Charles Lamb
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
Edgar Watson Howe
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of
a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
Dr. Seuss
Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
Otto Schuwdrmer
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be
made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense,
or indulge in sheer diabolism.
Aldous Huxley
Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God,
never.
Hans Richter
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense
out of a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the
refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of
existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that
nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of
printing.
Benjamin Disraeli
Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense,
down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances,
and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
W. H. Auden
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's
deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of
truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Northrop Frye
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I
should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are
wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was
they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
W. Somerset Maugham
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only
vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a
host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
Phyllis Mcginley
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense
respected.
Charles Lamb
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
Edgar Watson Howe
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of
a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
Dr. Seuss
Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
Otto Schuwdrmer
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be
made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense,
or indulge in sheer diabolism.
Aldous Huxley
Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God,
never.
Hans Richter
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense
out of a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How absurd men are! They never use the
liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom
of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard
Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels.
This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he
is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which
identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd
systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get
rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals,'' of a priori desires, of a priori
emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn
that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he
will win the princess with hair like flax.
Lionel Trilling
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts.
There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellectual and emancipated
womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted
lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of
dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.
Sylvia Pankhurst
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
Cardinal J. Newman
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man
should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.
Source Unknown
Absurdity. A statement or belief
manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view,
that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
Lord Byron
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the
face.
Albert Camus
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should
fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is
the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point;
only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it,
jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Vaclav Havel
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man
only.
Thomas Hobbes
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better
or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than
it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
Archibald MacLeish
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere
only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a
condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of
civilization.
Agnes Repplier
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the
world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit
atrocities.
Voltaire
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the
oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.
For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that
very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice,
from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps
laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have
any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism,
our penance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place
in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life
does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which
no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
Charles Horton Cooley
It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is
Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We
have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery
against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the
absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel
the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.
Victor Hugo
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just
deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical
interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this he is
hampered by a load of contradictory and absurd assumptions of the school
that he follows, which throws him into all manner of difficulty. Einstein
has such a faculty for embracing both sides of a contradiction that one
would have to be of the same frame of mind to follow his thought, it is so
peculiarly his own. The whole Relativity theory is as easy to follow as the
path of a bat in the air at night.
Jeremiah Joseph
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated
idea we have of the happiness of others.
French Proverb
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
Oliver Goldsmith
It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming
or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the
refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of
existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that
nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of
printing.
Benjamin Disraeli
Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense,
down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances,
and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
W. H. Auden
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's
deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of
truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Northrop Frye
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
