#nonsense

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#home #nonsense #others #philosophies #ride

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. ↗

— Robert Frost

#forgive #forgive me #give me #i #me

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

#better #better thing #far #firm #nonsense

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#her #nonsense #privilege #respected #talk

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#easily #finds #god #i #mortal

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. ↗

— John McCarthy

#doomed #nonsense #refuses #talk #who

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese. ↗

— John McGahern

#anything #being #chinese #else #i

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense? ↗

— William Pitt

#about #being #everyone #man #me

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#germans #nonsense #say #unable