| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." »Walt Whitman |
| "What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept" »Robert Browning |
| "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." »Don Marquis |
| "People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all." »Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort |
| "Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense." »Joseph Addison |
| "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 |
| "No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly." »D. A. Battista |
| "nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited." »George Santayana |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 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 |
| "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 |
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