A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
F. L. Lucas

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

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
Karel Capek

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma

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

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
Stephen Jay Gould

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

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they 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 refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
John McCarthy

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

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

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
George Mason

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
Luke Ford