Best 246 quotes in «nonsense quotes» category

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

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.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

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

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense.

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!

Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

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

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense.

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

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.