 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...trespassed upon human patience, more than any other description of writers. It has been poetically observed, "A little nonsense, now and then, Is relished by the wisest men." But this abominable thing is all nonsense ; astrologers, or rather their credulous dupes, should recollect,... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...upon human patience, more than any other description of writers. It has been poetically observed, " A little nonsense, now and then, Is relished by the wisest men." But this abominable thing is all nonsense ; astrologers, or rather their credulous dupes, should recollect,... | |
 | Disruption, William Cross - 1846 - 462 pages
...to be disposed to see more of this most eccentric of all her subjects. As the poet says : — • " A little nonsense, now and then, Is relished by the wisest men ;" and it is not to be supposed that even the Queen is insensible to the value of a little fun, especially... | |
 | William Cross (of Paisley.) - 1846 - 460 pages
...exceedingly, and to be disposed to see more of this most eccentric of all her subjects. As the poet says:— " A little nonsense, now and then, Is relished by the wisest men;" and it is not to be supposed that even the Queen is insensible to the value of a little fun, especially... | |
 | 1846 - 374 pages
...canst well afford to be jocund with us over the catalogue of Willie Wastle's wife's qualifications. " A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men," you know, so ho ! for a bit of innocent mirth ! Who in this world but Eobert Burns ever hit on such... | |
 | Yankee humour - 1853 - 154 pages
...is still more personal and amusing, and is so popular as to have run through thirteen editions,* for A little nonsense, now and then, Is relished by the wisest men. And as a sample we transcribe a part of the Major's first courting expedition : You know the Stallinses... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...Joy to the heart, like the breeze o'er the flower, Hippies it into fresh fairness each hour. Osgood. A little nonsense, now and then, Is relished by the wisest men. Holmes. CHURCH. What is a church? Let truth and reason speak ; They should reply, " The faithful, pure,... | |
 | Willian Tappan Thompson - American wit and humor - 1848 - 444 pages
...ADVENTURES, A SERIES OF LETTERS BY HIMSELF. WITH ADDITIONAL LETTERS; Am THIRTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY BARLEY. " A little nonsense now and then, Is relished by the wisest men." PHILADELPHIA: TB PETERSON, 102 CHESTNUT STREET. 4229^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the... | |
 | Julius Caesar Hannibal - 1857 - 346 pages
...some of the itinerant lecturers of the day should find themselves satirized, none will stop to weep. " A little nonsense now and then, Is relished by the wisest men." If this be true, he may hope to brush away the cobwebs of care from the brow of the most learned, and... | |
 | 1861 - 792 pages
...expedient, and " doeth good like a medicine." We are not disposed w quarrel with the saying, that — " A little nonsense now and then« Is relished by the wisest men : " but it should be only a little uonssnse ; and the now and then should not recur too frequently.... | |
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These sayings are true at all times, and equally true that " a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. 
