Nonsense Sayings and Quotes

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.

To attack a man for talking nonsense is like finding your mortal enemy drowning in a swamp and jumping in after him with a knife. Sir Karl Popper
Nonsense and beauty have close connections. E.M. Forster
We're not blind and we're not fools. We're just plain sensible people who refuse to be fooled by a lot of supernatural nonsense. Eric Taylor
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail when honor and affection fail. Lloyd
To write or talk concerning any subject, without having to previously take the pains to understand it, is a breach of duty which we owe to ourselves, though it may be no offense against the laws of the land. Coleridge
The privilege of talking and publishing nonsense is necessary in a free state; but the more sparingly we make use of it, the better. Coleridge
I find that nonsense, at times, is singularly refreshing. Talleyrand
Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens the effect. F. Saunders
He who talks incessantly talks nonsense. Ivory Coast
I just know that that doesn't make sense, but I'm not sure why. Robert J. Guia
It's frustrating to know in your heart that what you've just heard is nonsense but not to be able to pinpoint why it is nonsense. Robert J. Guia
Incredible it is, / How clear it has become... / To realize the many, / Who have succumbed to prioritize... / The living of their lives, / On baseless nonsense. / Condoning this too obvious. / And allowing it known. Lawrence S. Pertillar
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Dr. Seuss
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense? William Pitt
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
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. Alfred North Whitehead
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. E.W. Howe
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about. Oscar Wilde
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. John McCarthy
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
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense. Hermann Bondi
To recognize bullshit, nose is better than ear. Toba Beta
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it. Laurence Gonzales
You can speak with a twang and still not say a thang. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Our answers make no sense because our questions make no sense. Marty Rubin