| "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected." »Charles Lamb |
| "Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense." »Douglas Noel Adams |
| "Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense." »Robert Frost |
| "A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." »Roald Dahl |
| "To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life." »Frank Gelett Burgess |
| "Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense." »Joseph Addison |
| "nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited." »George Santayana |
| "No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly." »D. A. Battista |
| "The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." »Carl Gustav Jung |
| "nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail." »William Lloyd |
| "I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes." »Federico Fellni |
| "It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them" »Albert Einstein |
| "There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action." »Bertrand Russell |
| "I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense." »Edgar Watson Howe |
| "There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." »Robertson Davies |
| "Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other." »James Grover Thurber |
| "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. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities." »Dr. Seuss |
| "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 honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it." »Charles Dickens |
| "To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense." »Napoleon I |
| "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 |
| "Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense." »Carl Sagan |
| "Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Good nonsense is good sense in disguise." »Josh Billings |
| "Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense." »George Gallup |
| "All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute." »John Dryden |
| "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." »Pierre Corneille |
| "You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." »Henry Adams |
| "The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led." »Warren Bennis |
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