Quotes About Nonsense

It was nonsense to talk about its being a sacrifice to come there; for if it were, they would not see so many grasping to be members of Congress.

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

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

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

If you can believe in God you can believe in a witch, it is the same package. If you can believe in one kind of nonsense, you can believe in all kinds of nonsense.

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.

If you make time for the nonsense, good or bad, it will continue to seek you out.

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

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

Someone has opened the flood gates of stupidity...

Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.

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

There was a monstrous deal of stupid quizzing and common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

Another stupid party last night; perhaps if larger they might be less intolerable, but here there were only just enough to make one card-table, with six people to look on and talk nonsense to each other.

In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

Introduction to Classical Mythology Of old the Hellenic race was marked off from the barbarian as more keen-witted and more free from nonsense. HERODOTUS I: 60.