The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin Franklin
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The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned - but it's still nonsense.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sense is nonsense to a fool.
ROBIN ROBERTSON Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
MAX BEERBOHM All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER It is just nonsense but these things will happen to the boy throughout his life.
SIR ALEX FERGUSON Always remember, money isn't everything -- but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such...
EARL WILSON Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of ...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea ...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking s...
EARL WILSON The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily percei...
PHILIP K. DICK It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotr...
GILES FRASER Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN in nonsense is strength
KURT VONNEGUT Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking n...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
WALTER ISAACSON That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library...
ASHLEY JOHNSON Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on real...
GARY ZUKAV That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
JOE LAUINGER Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who mad...
EARL WILSON Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB ...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as ...
LEMONY SNICKET People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to in...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Any person that has LEARNED the use of his subconscious powers is in HEAVEN already, But any person ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB Nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists.
JOHN C. LENNOX Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your no...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Nonsense ought to be treated as nonsense wherever it be found, and had this been done in the rationa...
CURTIS MCDOUGALL Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find your...
LAURENCE GONZALES Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
UNKNOWN Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonse...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.
LEWIS CARROLL I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evi...
CATHERINE LACEY Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited
GEORGE SANTAYANA A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does
not mis-become a monarch.
HORACE WALPOLE Conductor, when you receive a fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare.
A blue trip slip ...
MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) From the Squirrel skin Marcosset
Made some mittens for our hero.
Mittens with the fur-side ins...
REV. GEORGE AUGUSTUS STRONG (USED PSEUDONYM MARC ANTONY HENDERSON) There's a skin without and a skin within,
A covering skin and a lining skin,
But the skin with...
OLD SONG When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on,
He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one.
"With t...
OLD SONG No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it
solemnly.
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!
Who has written such volumes of stuff!
Some think him ill-tempe...
EDWARD LEAR To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.
CHARLES CHURCHILL 'T was brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borog...
LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) For blocks are better cleft with wedges,
Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,
And dullest nonse...
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.
DAVID GAY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect
FREDERICK SAUNDERS A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men
WILLY WONKA He killed the noble Mudjokivis.
Of the skin he made him mittens,
Made them with the fur side i...
ANONYMOUS Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and
then is pleasant.
[Lat., Misce ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!
AGATHA CHRISTIE Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. FORSTER We need a Katrina reconstruction commission headed by a no-nonsense, nonpolitical, businessman manag...
DAVID VITTER She's the best player in SCISAA. And that's not arguably or any of that nonsense. But we just didn't...
ANTHONY HOUSTON That's just a lot of nonsense. It points to the fact that he does not have any issues to talk about.
HAROLD TAYLOR I was supposed to be gutted but that's all nonsense. I'm happy as I am. I'm single and not looking f...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY We'll have to see," Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. "Potio-...
UMBERTO ECO That is absolutely nonsense, ... Those kinds of statements are not helpful.
ABDEL RAHMAN Dis and dis and deese and dose
HUGH PIERCE That's nonsense. The association never sets prices - the big mills do based on costs and supply and ...
QI XIANGDONG We are extremely happy to have Steve back as our Chief Steward. He has a no-nonsense approach and hi...
RON BENNETT It is nonsense for the Attorney General to say she had no more options,
DENNIS HASTERT When Ford comes along and says that Toyota is manipulating the supply, it's nonsense. Toyota develop...
KURT SANGER I took a bunch of pictures. You can see 'em on my MySpace page, along with my favorite songs and mov...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
LEWIS CARROLL The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS They're bringing it in faster than they're getting it out.
DAVID GAY The idea that it's going to be midnight in the middle of the afternoon is just nonsense.
JUDAH LEVINE Nonsense is always a distraction.
JEFF VAN GUNDY This notion that we want to shock Muslims, that is complete nonsense. They don't need to agree in th...
MAUD BREDERO I thought maybe if I stared hard enough, I could see the lights of the city I had left so very far b...
LEMONY SNICKET Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being ...
JIM WALLIS It was a good day a mix of industry stuff and super-stupid useless celebrity nonsense. I mean the...
MARK LISANTI Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
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
ROBERT FROST Stuff and nonsense. Nonsense and stuff and much of a muchness and nonsense all over again. We are al...
MARISSA MEYER Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separate...
JAMES THURBER Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...
ROGER SCRUTON The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard no...
LEWIS CARROLL The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
ROBERT FROST A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIèRE A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life...
ANN COULTER nonsense environment.
JANIS JOPLIN By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
HORACE WALPOLE It Takes Sense To Sense, Non-Sense
SYED SHARUKH But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globalo...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN