Talk:Nonsense

This is a note concerning the Unsourced material on the page. While I do not think that all the unsourced quotations need be kept (especially if some that should be cannot be sourced appropriately, as many are simply traditionally attributed to certain people), however I do think that some need not necessarily be included, as in the “quote” by one E. Zenker: “Oh, Pumpkin Nuts!” which apparently is a quotation by a person I have not even herd of, and which, anyway I do not really understand. Consequently, I have removed the offending quote to the discussion page.

• Oh, Pumpkin Nuts!
  • E. Zenker

—This unsigned comment is by Wise Raven (talk • contribs) 18:06, 14 July 2011.

Agreed. Aside from the sourcing and notability issues, this article is for quotes about nonsense. Examples of nonsensical statements do not generally belong here. It invites subjective editorial opinion about what does or does not make sense. ~ Ningauble 18:23, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

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• Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
  • Max Beerbohm

• Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.
  • Yogi Berra

• It's like déjà vu all over again.
  • Yogi Berra

• You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
  • Yogi Berra

• I didn't really say everything I said.
  • Yogi Berra

• Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.
  • Josh Billings

• I've got other irons in the fire, but I'm keeping them close to my chest.
  • John Bond

• What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
  • Bertolt Brecht

• I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.
  • George W. Bush

• If you don't go to other men's funerals they won't go to yours.
  • Clarence Day

• If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
  • Clarence Day

• All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
  • Alexandre Dumas, fils

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
  • Albert Einstein

• The world is more like it is now than it ever was before.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

• If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
  • George Gobel, US comedian.

• Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
  • Allen Goldfein

• A verbal contract is not worth the paper it's written on.
  • Samuel Goldwyn

• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
  • Samuel Goldwyn

• If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
  • Samuel Goldwyn

• American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
  • Ed Howe

• The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
  • Franklin P. Jones

• I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
  • Stan Laurel

• If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.
  • Stan Laurel, Epitath

• A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
  • Spike Milligan

• Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing, but none of them serious.
  • Alan Minter, boxer.

• I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.
  • Greg Norman

• Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense – can he talk nonsense?
  • William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

• We are ready for any unforseen event that may or may not occur.
  • Dan Quayle

• It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
  • Dan Quayle

• I don't want to tell you any half-truths unless they're completely accurate.
  • Dennis Rappaport, boxing manager.

• I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
  • Leo Rosten

• Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
  • George Santayana

• Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
  • Brook Shields

• No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
  • Alfred E. Smith

• Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
  • Igor Stravinsky

• We didn't have metaphors in our day. We didn't beat about the bush.
  • Fred Trueman

• In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man."
  • Mark Twain

• We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures.
  • Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615), Queen of France and Navarre.

• I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad.
  • Julian Wakefield, Missouri sportsman.