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

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. — C. G. Jung

To recognize bullshit,
nose is better than ear. — Toba Beta

Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world - Los Angeles in the '50s - they made perfect sense. — Wanda Coleman

That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

When I say the things that don't make sense you answer me anyway. It's like having green in your shirt. — Mindy McGinnis

One man's nonsense is another man's sense. — Peter Cameron

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. — Horace Walpole

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

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

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense. — Norton Juster

Do not be scared to do your good nonsense as it may seem to some people, out your good nonsense their is common sense ; that is my philosophy . — Osunsakin Adewale

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

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it. — Cassandra Clare

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

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. — Lewis Carroll

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

I have no wish to talk nonsense."
"If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense. — Charlotte Bronte

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them. — Rory Bremner

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense. — Moliere

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

Netherling logic resides in the hazy border between sense and nonsense. — A.G. Howard

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

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently. — Andrew Young

Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The greatest sense is indistinguishable from the greatest nonsense. — Marty Rubin

Do not waste time attempting to make sense out of nonsense. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense. — Leigh Hunt

Phd without common sense is nonsense — Sekoni Sullivan

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

Feeling free of full & empty, feeling here but also there,
Neither or but simply both, a universe within, one single stare. — Jay Woodman

It's hardly the time for sense, I should think, since nonsense
has been serving us so well — E.J. Patten

What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again. — Debasish Mridha

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

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations. — Daniil Kharms

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense. — Anthony Burgess

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives. — Ian Frazier

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense. — Debasish Mridha

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself. — Norton Juster

You'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical. — Dianna Hardy

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible. — Allan Watts

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense. — Moliere

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. — Robert Frost

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. — George Santayana

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. — Augustus Hare

Uncommon sense is common nonsense. — G.K. Chesterton

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense. — Jason Calacanis

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it. — Vernon Howard

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise. — Josh Billings

A sensible speaker is a slave to making sense. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

When common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul. — L.M. Montgomery

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe. — David Bohm