“A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense.”
"The Weaver and the Worm", The New Yorker ( 11 August 1956 http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1956/08/11/1956_08_11_019_TNY_CARDS_000252308); Further Fables for Our Time (1956) <br class="br">From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
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George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
1790s, Farewell Address (1796)
Context: The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Adam Kilgarriff (1960–2015) linguist from England
in I don't believe in word senses http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/Publications/1997-K-CHum-believe.pdf (1997), p. 25
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“The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
Frank Miller (1957) American writer, artist, film director
“Just because it makes no sense doesn't mean it's not good advice.”
Mick Farren (1943–2013) English journalist, author and singer
“It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.”
Elmore Leonard book Freaky Deaky
Source: Freaky Deaky