#nonsense

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

#boy #enough #happy #him #know

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#inspiration #moment #nonsense #talk

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

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. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#beauty #because #dangerous #ego #goodness

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

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

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

#bourgeoisie #common #common people #common sense #exists

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#coup #final #finish #give #grace