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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptable rights, rhetorical nonsensenonsense upon stilts.
Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.
'When you say ''hill'','the Queen interrupted,'I could show you hills, in comparison with which you'd call that a valley.' 'No, I shouldn't,'said Alice, surprised into contradicting her at last: 'a hill can't be a valley, you know. That would be nonsense' The Red Queen shook her head.'You may call it ''nonsense'' if you like,'shesaid,'but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!'
This monstrous mixture of imbecility, extravagance and political hysteria, better known as the Bill for the future government of Irelandthis farrago of superlative nonsense, is to be put in motion for this reason and no other: to gratify the ambition of an old man in a hurry.
Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.
Sure the poetspewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once.
All perfect republics are a perfect nonsense.The craving to risk death is our last great perversion.We come from night, we go into night.Why live in night?
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion.When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
Let school-masters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Factsareventriloquist'sdummies. Sittingonawiseman's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Will yer stop yer tickling, Jock! Oh, stop yer tickling, Jock! Dinna mak'me laugh so hearty, or you'll mak'me choke. Oh! I wish you'd stop yer nonsensejust look at all the folk. Will yer stop yer ticklingtickle-ickle-ickle-ing Stop yer tickling, Jock!
Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Pure poetry is pure experimentmemorable nonsense.
'That sounds like nonsense, my dear.' 'Maybe so, my dear; but it may be very good law for all that.'
To attempt to export revolution is nonsense.
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from another.
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writeswith a misty profundity, heis talking nonsense.
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