Common Nonsense Quotes

#1. The harder we have to work for something, the better it often is.

Sarah Price

#2. It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.

Frederick Rolfe

#3. When common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. Uncommon sense is common nonsense.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. Oh, but nonsense, she thought; William must marry Lily. They have so many things in common. Lily is so fond of flowers. They are both cold and aloof and rather self-sufficing. She must arrange for them to take a long walk together.

Virginia Woolf

#6. Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

George Santayana

#7. In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense.

Juliet Castle

#8. Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Debasish Mridha

#9. While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#10. Stupid people had a few authors in common: Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Danielle Steel. What nonsense. Such dreck.

Victor LaValle

#11. To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

John Dryden

#12. He thought the common people must be remarkably stupid if they believed all this nonsense.

Iain M. Banks

#13. The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.

Tom Peters

#14. The eighteenth Century thought itself to be the age of reason; the nineteenth century thought itself to be the age of common sense while the twentieth century can only think of itself as the age of uncommon nonsense.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. Searching outside oneself for what can only be found within can lead to a life lived in the wrong direction and sacrifices made for the wrong reasons. People can wind up alienated from themselves even if they achieve lofty goals set by others.

Michael Meade

#16. She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

Jeannette Walls

#17. There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

Jane Austen

#18. Do not be scared to do your good nonsense as it may seem to some people, out your good nonsense their is common sense ; that is my philosophy .

Osunsakin Adewale

#19. You and I are from two different worlds."
"Nonsense. We have much in common. We both like books, dogs, poems, Sir Walter Scott, dogs - I could go on."
"You listed dogs twice."
"It does not matter; I still made my point."
"No, you haven't.

Karen Hawkins

#20. Change is not, then, a matter of "magical" thinking or waving a "wand" - it is about pushing ideas, building movements, and challenging the status quo.

Christopher Cook

#21. The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

C.S. Lewis

#22. Would any grown girl in Russia be frightened by a "room of horror"? Westerner's lives are too calm and peaceful, is makes them afraid of all sorts of nonsense ...

Sergei Lukyanenko

#23. I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#24. If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

Barry Sternlicht

#25. One of the first things I said when I signed on for the show was No hugs! Full House was all based on hugs.

Bob Saget

#26. Phd without common sense is nonsense

Sekoni Sullivan

#27. The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work.

Richard P. Feynman

#28. Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With each new day, find new ways to love each other even more.

Dave Willis

#29. Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

George Jean Nathan