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.
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality. Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.Gary Zukav
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We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.Jack Kerouac
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.Carl Sagan
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Be wise enough to walk away from the nonsense around you.Anonymous
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One man's nonsense is another man's sense.Peter Cameron
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.E M Forster
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Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.Seuss
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The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.Nick Harkaway
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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.Horace Walpole
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Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.David Bohm
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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.George Santayana
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A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.Tom Stoppard
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Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.Aldous Huxley
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.Roald Dahl
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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.Gelett Burgess
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Nonsense remains nonsense, even when spoken by famous scientists.John Lennox
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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
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.Vladimir Nabokov
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.Bertrand Russell
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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.Norton Juster
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.Charles Lamb
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Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.Albert Einstein
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There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.Cassandra Clare
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It is a nonsense, it is a waste of resources and it is a silly way for any person to make their point, political or otherwise.Shane Connelly
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It's better to walk away than to tolerate nonsense.Anonymous
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Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.Arthur Frederick Saunders
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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
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all.Nikolai Gogol