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If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: «It's gonna go wrong.» Or «She's going to hurt me.» Or, «I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore ...» Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
George Mason
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
To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.
Timothy Ferriss
The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense.
Aldous Huxley
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
Voltaire
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
John McCarthy (computer scientist)
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
You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, "I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer," that kind of Hollywood nonsense.
John C. Reilly
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
Harold Brodkey
I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is nonsense. But that was Hitler's idea, and...was pure fantasy. As I say, Hitler is a riddle to me and will always remain so.
Joachim von Ribbentrop
I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.
Daniel Handler
It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.
Thomas Ligotti
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
Charles Krauthammer
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
Robert A. Heinlein
Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.
Robert A. Heinlein
It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.
Frederick Rolfe
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George Eliot
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
Thornton Wilder
Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
Wallace Stevens
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