A Quote by Roald Dahl

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
British - Novelist
September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

Gene Wilder

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

Finley Peter Dunne

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

Horace

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.

Horace

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.

Horace Walpole

A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

Enoch Powell

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

Jane Austen

Whatever was given to me, I respected it, I valued it and I relished it and with me, the entire world relished it.

Rekha

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

Sinclair Lewis

The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

Woodrow Wilson

The Constitution did not even go into effect when Washington was inaugurated first President. The wisest men knew that it was only a figment of the imagination then.

Charles A. Beard

One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.

Ambrose Bierce

We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.

Karl Popper

I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.