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

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
– Tom Stoppard

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  1. A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. – Tom Stoppard
  2. Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. – Robert Frost
  3. It’s all nonsense. It’s only nonsense. I’m not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn’t. – Ernest Hemingway
  4. Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. – Charles Lamb
  5. Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe. – John Christopher
  6. It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society’s accepted normalcy – Natasha Tsakos
  7. You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers. – Dejan Stojanovic
  8. Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God. – CS Lewis
  9. Speaking calls for risk, speaking calls for a sense of what one has to lose. Not just what one has to gain. – Anne Deavere Smith
  10. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
  11. For all the compasses in the world, there’s only one direction, and time is its only measure. – Tom Stoppard
  12. What are a friend’s books for if not to be borrowed? – Tom Stoppard
  13. What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour’s freedom to sing a different tune in his. – Tom Stoppard
  14. Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You’d have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I’m not dead. – Tom Stoppard
  15. He’s never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. – Tom Stoppard
  16. No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that’s death. – Tom Stoppard
  17. Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef. – Tom Stoppard
  18. A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom. – Tom Stoppard
  19. There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said — no. But somehow we missed it. – Tom Stoppard
  20. We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. – Tom Stoppard
  21. Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought. – Tom Stoppard
  22. Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God. – Tom Stoppard
  23. A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. – Tom Stoppard
  24. The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means. – Tom Stoppard
  25. Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending. – Tom Stoppard
  26. People do terrible things to each other, but it’s worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark. – Tom Stoppard
  27. It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting. – Tom Stoppard
  28. The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. – CG Jung
  29. In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense. – Juliet Castle
  30. We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense. – Norton Juster
  31. Sometimes you may feel that your heart is speaking and sometimes you may feel that your mind is speaking. In reality there is only one speaker: Mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  32. What seeks you when you are not seeking, is the universe’s way of speaking to you without speaking. – Jennifer Sodini
  33. The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  34. When you pray, you are speaking to yourself. When you take action, you are speaking to God. – Steve Maraboli
  35. I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English. – AJ Jacobs
  36. When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself. – Bryant McGill
  37. When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice. – Cheryl Strayed
  38. Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. – Charles ens
  39. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  40. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel

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