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13 Quotes for 'Nonsense' in the Database.
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A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.
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Source: None
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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.
That's why he put the fur side inside,
Why he put the skin side outside,
Why he turned them inside outside.
Author: Anonymous
Source: in Carolyn Wells "Parody Anthology", p. 120
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For blocks are better cleft with wedges,
Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,
And dullest nonsense has been found
By some to be the most profound.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Pindaric Ode (IV, l. 82)
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'T was brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Author: Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson)
Source: Through the Looking Glass (ch. I)
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To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Apology (l. 219)
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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and
then is pleasant.
[Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
Dulce est desipere in loco.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (IV, 12, 27)
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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.
Author: Edward Lear
Source: Lines to a Young Lady
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No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it
solemnly.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays (bk. III, ch. I)
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When Bryan O'Lynn 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 O'Lynn.
Author: Old Song
Source: Old Irish Song
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There's 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.
Author: Old Song
Source: Old Irish Song
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From the Squirrel skin Marcosset
Made some mittens for our hero.
Mittens with the fur-side inside,
With the fur-side next his fingers
So's to keep the hand warm inside.
Author: Rev. George Augustus Strong (used pseudonym Marc Antony Henderson)
Source: Song of the Milgenwater, a parody of Hiawatha
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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!
Punch, brothers! punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
Author: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Source: Punch, Brothers, Punch, used in "Literary Nightmare"
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A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does
not mis-become a monarch.
Author: Horace Walpole
Source: Letter to Sir Horace Mann
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