“Nothing is capable to being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
— Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 18, 21st March 1711.
“The nonsense that charms is close to sense.”
— Mason Cooley (1927-2002), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection (1993).
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
— Robert Frost, Letter to Louis Untermeyer, 7th August 1915.
“No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.”
— Anthony de Mello, Introduction, One Minute Nonsense (1992).
“A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.”
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Act II
“A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch.”
— Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann, (1770).

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