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Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.


Laurence Gonzales

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ROBERT FROST Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
ROBERT FROST Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense
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SAMUEL BUTLER (1) A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.
UNKNOWN Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect
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DAVID GAY The idea that it's going to be midnight in the middle of the afternoon is just nonsense.
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LAURENCE HOUSMAN The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
LAURENCE STERNE I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
LAURENCE STERNE We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
LAURENCE STERNE For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
LAURENCE STERNE 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to t...
LAURENCE STERNE I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but h...
LAURENCE STERNE When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but th...
LAURENCE STERNE Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong,...
LAURENCE STERNE There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
LAURENCE STERNE People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev...
LAURENCE STERNE If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
PETER LAURENCE Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
LAURENCE STERNE So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither c...
LAURENCE STERNE A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests hi...
LAURENCE STERNE Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not ...
LAURENCE STERNE Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
LAURENCE STERNE Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to...
LAURENCE STERNE The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
LAURENCE LEAMER If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.
LAURENCE STERNE Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of ...
LAURENCE STERNE The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
LAURENCE STERNE What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who inter...
LAURENCE STERNE The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
LAURENCE STERNE The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to...
LAURENCE OLIVIER