Joseph Prince Quotes

All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew.

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

I have a bath every month whether I need it or not.

I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.

I'm super-hygienic.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way 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.

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.

What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

Did I just kill someone?" "You can't kill a dead person," Callum said. "Makes no sense.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.

I'll cook the water.

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

The square root of nothing.

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

It is not only not right, it is not even wrong.