Quotes of Mad - somelinesforyou

“ He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements. ”

- Mark Dayton

“ I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy. ”

- Jackie Chan

“ I am a danger to myself if I get angry. ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think "How lucky are the dead. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. ”

- Robertson Davies

“ There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick! ”

- Lee Ryan

“ There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher. ”

- Ted Williams

“ In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ”

- Akira Kurosawa

“ They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be. ”

- Don Quixote

“ The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane. ”

- Joe Orton

“ I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself! ”

- Herman Melville

“ During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it. ”

- Captain J. G. Stedman

“ Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash…Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how. ”

- Elie Wiesel

“ I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down… ”

- Don Delillo

“ Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. ”

- Ted Morgan

“ Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. ”

- John Russell

“ Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? ”

- George Price

“ To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ”

- George Santayana
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