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Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.Max Beerbohm, Going Back to School.
— Nonsense happiness
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.G. K. Chesterton, Child Psychology and Nonsense.
— Nonsense education
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant.
— Nonsense literature
Ive a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.Maria Edgeworth, Continuation of Memoirs, Castle Rackrent.
— Nonsense memoir
If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.Michel de Montaigne, The Essays, Of Vanity, Book III, Chapter 9.
— Nonsense self
Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.George Orwell, Nonsense Poetry, in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays.
— Nonsense poetry
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
— Nonsense self
He killed the noble Mudjokivis. Of the skin he made him mittens, Made them with the fur side inside, Made them with the skin side outside. He, to get the warm side inside, Put the inside skin side outside; He, to get the cold side outside, Put the warm side fur side inside. Thats why he put the fur side inside, Why he put the skin side outside, Why he turned them inside outside.Given as Anon. in Carolyn Wells, Parody Anthology, p. 120.
— Nonsense war
When Bryan OLynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a one. With the skinny side out, and the wooly side in, Twill be warm and convanient, said Bryan OLynn.Old Irish Song.
— Nonsense war
For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Than tools of sharp or subtle edges, And dullest nonsense has been found By some to be the most profound.Samuel Butler, Pindaric Ode, IV, line 82.
— Nonsense wit
Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
— Nonsense you
Chorus Punch, brothers! punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!Mark Twain, Punch, Brothers, Punch. Used in Literary Nightmare. Notice posted in a car and discovered by Mark Twain. Changed into the above jingle, which became popular, by Isaac Bromley and others. See Albert Bigelow Paine, Biography of Mark Twain.
— Nonsense change
Mark Twain, Punch, Brothers, Punch. Used in Literary Nightmare. Notice posted in a car and discovered by Mark Twain. Changed into the above jingle, which became popular, by Isaac Bromley and others. See Albert Bigelow Paine, Biography of Mark Twain.
— Nonsense change
Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. Horace, Carmina, IV. 12. 27.
— Nonsense wisdom
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough.Edward Lear, Lines to a Young Lady.
— Nonsense war
No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book III, Chapter I.
— Nonsense book
Theres a skin without and a skin within, A covering skin and a lining skin, But the skin within is the skin without Doubled and carried complete throughout.Power of Atherstone.
— Nonsense power
From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero. Mittens with the fur-side inside, With the fur side next his fingers Sos to keep the hand warm inside.G. Strong Marc Antony Henderson; Song of the Milgenwater, Parody of Hiawatha.
— Nonsense war
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.Nonsensical pseudo-Latin text traditionally used for demonstrating typography and layout. Origin of modern use is unknown. The text derives from chopped up words and phrases from Ciceros De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum On the Ends of Goods and Evils, also known as The Purposes of Good and Evil. More at Wikipedia.
— Nonsense words
Nonsensical pseudo-Latin text traditionally used for demonstrating typography and layout. Origin of modern use is unknown. The text derives from chopped up words and phrases from Ciceros De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum On the Ends of Goods and Evils, also known as The Purposes of Good and Evil. More at Wikipedia.
— Nonsense words
One bright day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys began to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. A deaf policemen heard the noise, and came to save the two dead boys. If you dont believe me, well its true, ask the blind man, he saw it all too.
— Nonsense words

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