“ Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. ”
- Dennis Wholey- Copy
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“ The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. ”
- Helen Rowland- Copy
- 464
“ Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. ”
- Golda Meir- Copy
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“ The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 291
“ It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before… it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want — an adorable pancreas? ”
- Jean Kerr- Copy
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“ It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed… Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all. ”
- Norman Cousins- Copy
- 53
“ The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
- 344
“ An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
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“ Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!". ”
- Tom Fatjo- Copy
- 2.9K
“ All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 346
“ Finish each 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 encumbered with your old nonsense. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect. ”
- Alan Dean Foster- Copy
- 2K
“ A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. ”
- Horace Walpole- Copy
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