Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old nonsense quotes, nonsense sayings, and nonsense proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
To attack a man for talking nonsense is like finding your mortal enemy drowning in a swamp and jumping in after him with a knife.Sir Karl Popper
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.E.M. Forster
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We're not blind and we're not fools. We're just plain sensible people who refuse to be fooled by a lot of supernatural nonsense.Eric Taylor
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The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Jung
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Nonsense and noise will oft prevail when honor and affection fail.Lloyd
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To write or talk concerning any subject, without having to previously take the pains to understand it, is a breach of duty which we owe to ourselves, though it may be no offense against the laws of the land.Coleridge
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The privilege of talking and publishing nonsense is necessary in a free state; but the more sparingly we make use of it, the better.Coleridge
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I find that nonsense, at times, is singularly refreshing.Talleyrand
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Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens the effect.F. Saunders
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He who talks incessantly talks nonsense.Ivory Coast
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I just know that that doesn't make sense, but I'm not sure why.Robert J. Guia
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It's frustrating to know in your heart that what you've just heard is nonsense but not to be able to pinpoint why it is nonsense.Robert J. Guia
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Incredible it is, / How clear it has become... / To realize the many, / Who have succumbed to prioritize... / The living of their lives, / On baseless nonsense. / Condoning this too obvious. / And allowing it known.Lawrence S. Pertillar
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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
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Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?William Pitt
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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
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.Alfred North Whitehead
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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.E.W. Howe
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I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.Oscar Wilde
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He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.John McCarthy
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.John Kenneth Galbraith
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We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.Hermann Bondi
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To recognize bullshit, nose is better than ear.Toba Beta
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Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.Laurence Gonzales
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You can speak with a twang and still not say a thang.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Our answers make no sense because our questions make no sense.Marty Rubin