Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Any one so senseless as to believe that there are men whose footsteps are higher than their heads?... that the crops and trees grow downward?... that the rains and snow and hail fall upward toward the earth?... I am at a loss what to say of those who, when they have once erred, steadily persevere in their folly and defend one vain thing by another.

It is to believed because it is absurd.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Humor is reason gone mad.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

No sense makes sense.

The tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart

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.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

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

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

in nonsense is strength

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!