NONSENSE

Related Subjects: Absurdities, Fool, Humor, Limericks, Mockery, Ridicule

1. For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit,
   Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit.—SAMUEL BUTLER, On Modern Critics
   

2. A doosed fine gal—well educated too—with no biggodd nonsense about her.—DICKENS, Little Dorrit
   

3. So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming down the street, pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the Barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjan­drum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch­can, till the gun powder ran out at the heels of their boots.—SAMUEL FOOTE, Traditionally supposed to have been written to challenge the memory of Charles Macklin, the actor, who prided himself upon rapid study.
   

4. No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do
   it solemnly.—MONTAIGNE, Essays

5. A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.—Nursery Rhyme
   

6. And such a deal of skimble­skamble stuff.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV