Nonsense Quotes - Page 5

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense.

I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God's making it in reality.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

Exported revolution is nonsense.

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

If I can't understand something, then it's probably nonsense.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.