- A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. ~ Roald Dahl
- All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ~ Samuel Butler
- Always remember, money isn’t everything – but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. ~ Earl Wilson
- By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. ~ Horace Walpole
- Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ~ C. S. Lewis
- Don’t talk to me about a man’s being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense? ~ William Pitt Chatham
- Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense. ~ Robert Frost
- Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. ~ Max Beerbohm
- 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
- He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense. ~ Ivorian Proverb
- Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed. ~ Jim Wallis
- It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- Nonsense and beauty have close connections. ~ E. M. Forster
- Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited. ~ George Santayana
- The world is nonsense: what looks beautiful in the morning looks ugly in the evening. ~ Maltese Proverb
- They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. ~ Ted Nelson
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