A Quote by Mark Twain

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Gertrude Stein

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

Gary Zukav

When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.

Genesis P-Orridge

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

Vernon Howard

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Anthony Burgess

Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

Matthew Henry

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

David Bohm

It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.

Louis Untermeyer

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Josh Billings

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

George Santayana

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

Ayn Rand

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.

Joy Fielding

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Robert Frost

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

Charles Caleb Colton

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