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To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense. — Gerrit Smith

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense. — Georg Solti

And, after speech, it provided a readier instrument for the dissemination of nonsense than the world has ever known until our time. — Will Durant

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly — Michel De Montaigne

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears
but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. — Samuel Butler

Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense. — Julian Barnes

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense? — William Pitt

She'll be ruined if she's not careful," Ella said. "Nonsense. He'd wed her in a heartbeat if he thought she'd have him," Vivi replied. "Quite." A — Sarah MacLean

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

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't. — Ernest Hemingway,

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism. — Albert Einstein

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin

I could still box your ears."
"Nonsense," he scoffed. "You couldn't reach that high. — Anne Gracie

You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues. — Howard Wolpe

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense! — Bill Drayton

I talk nonsense at times, because sense is monotonous. — Anonymous

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense — Mark Twain

My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs. — Carol Bartz

It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's. — Sheila Kohler

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense. — Robert Smith

I expect a report on his abs. Real details, not romance novel nonsense. — Katie McGarry

I tell you, the sperm will stand no nonsense. — Herman Melville

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize. — W. H. Auden

Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut. — M.F. Moonzajer

Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself. — Doc Holliday

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. — Criss Jami

A man who does not see stuff and nonsense in a moonshine will blow his life to bits. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain. — Gasmaskman

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men. — Amanda Donohoe

To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible — Pat Robertson

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

When people work together, they have no time for nonsense. — Stef Wertheimer

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

Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics. — Frank Tipler

Perhaps we don't always discriminate between sense and nonsense. — George Eliot

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that. — Virginia Woolf

He could do nothing but twist his moustache, drink, and chatter the most inept nonsense that can possibly be imagined. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The nonsense that charms is close to sense. — Mason Cooley

We'll never survive!"
"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has. — William Goldman

I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore. — Ariana Madix

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense. — Ayn Rand

Too much righteousness makes you a nonsense — Umar Hassan

Nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists. — John C. Lennox

In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense. — Juliet Castle

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction. — Lewis Carroll

Witches see the truth plainly - even if their husbands are full of nonsense. — Deborah Harkness

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense. — Jason Statham

If you behaved properly, they would, but knowing you like their nonsense, they keep it up, and then you blame them. — Louisa May Alcott

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When people expect you to react to their nonsense, remain calm and silent. It's good for the soul and makes them think twice. — Karen Gibbs

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense. — Neil Postman

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect. — Arthur Frederick Saunders

To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He wondered if she realized that for all she complained about his alpha nonsense, she was pure-blooded alpha herself. Rowan — Sarah J. Maas

Poetry is sublime nonsense. — Marty Rubin

Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time. — Robert A. Heinlein

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense. — Eva Green

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time. — Miguel Ruiz

Well, India is a country of nonsense. M. K. Gandhi — V.S. Naipaul

I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized. — Henry Earl Singleton

When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking. — Shannon L. Alder

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. — Carl Sagan

in time-out. That's how you're acting - like five-year-olds. It's time you realized that you are sixteen and way too old for this nonsense. And you — Holly Jacobs

Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense. — Henry Spencer

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. — Jim Harrison

As Kierkegaard said, "To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. — Brian Zahnd

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey! — Zachary Taylor

Nonsense. Fools refuse to try something new. — Dorian Cirrone

Nonsense. It's elves! — Natalie Babbitt

Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock. — Thomas Hardy

I was thinking, So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. — Robert Graves

This is a haiku
Haiku's don't have to make sense
Refrigerator — Anonymous

Rest assured you make perfectly good nonsense. I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity. — Mason Cooley

If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I'm thinking 12 tiers. — Michelle M. Pillow

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness. — Daniel Kahneman

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all — Nikolai Gogol

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense — Morton Blackwell

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end. — Charles Baudelaire

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?' — Terry Zwigoff

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Dude, nonsense is actually afraid of you, that's how no-nonsense you are. — Tere Michaels

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness. — Maj Sjowall

I fell asleep to the faint sounds of the nonsense doggerel Merican Pie. — Mark Lawrence

Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph. — Swami Vivekananda

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense. — Sigmar Gabriel

Your explanation depresses me," I said.
"Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple. — Langston Hughes

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

The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation. — Tom Peters

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. — Ambrose Bierce

An idea so dangerous it can't be discussed. I thought we buried all that nonsense back in the Dark Ages. — Alastair Reynolds

It is not nonsense and nobody asked you; you aren't competent to have an opinion about it. — Robert A. Heinlein

For God's sake. In movies, they fix the note to a dog's collar and it trots off obediently, no nonsense. — Sophie Kinsella

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

Logic was my favorite class in school. I like it because it's a way to see HOW what someone says is nonsense. — Donna Leon

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. — Samuel Davies

Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe. — John Christopher

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense. — Arthur Scargill