"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!"

"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."

"Whenever you come near the human race, there’s layers and layers of nonsense."

"My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense."

"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."

"A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch."

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

"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself."

"There is absolutely no common sense; it is common nonsense."

"Any bit of nonsense can be computerized—astrology, biorhythms, the I Ching—but that doesn’t make the nonsense any more valid."

"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."

"Such a shuffleing, nonsensical paragraph was, I firmly believe, never put together since the invention of letters. That which I do not, and which, I think, no one can, understand. I shall not meddle with."

"No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly."

"Alban was silent. It was difficult to talk to a man who spoke obvious nonsense."

"I don't hold with all this washing. This modern Behind-the-ears nonsense."

"For one of us was born a twin And not a soul knew which."

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

"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."

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought."

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

"Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age."

"They beautifully illustrate the recipe for nonsense, which is: take something strange-looking, whose meaning is now forgotten, and liberally stir in imagination and superstition. In this respect the divinatory tarot is a paradigm of all superstitions and wonderfully illustrates humanity’s clever, ingenious, and intricate capacity for folly."

"As Charms are nonsense, Nonsence is a Charm."

"The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."

"Nine–tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."

"Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity."

"To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the Devil."

"Colourless green ideas sleep furiously."

"The nonsense that charms is close to sense."

"I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Nonsense and beauty have close connections — closer connections than Art will allow."

"Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals."

"O, you shall see him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up."

"The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on me."

"With his eyes in flood with laughter."

"O, I am stabb'd with laughter."

"The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes. That is what I am called upon to do every day."

"Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; And every Grin, so merry, draws one out."

"Castigat ridendo mores."

"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

"I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter."

"The house of laughter makes a house of woe."

"They laugh that win."

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own."