nonsense

Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

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

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in all periods of time.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.