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“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quotes |
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“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
Bruce Feirstein Quotes |
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“For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.”
Jean Dubuffet Quotes |
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“.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Quotes |
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“Insanity is my only means of relaxation”
George Orwell Quotes |
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“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
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“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quotes |
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“Some are born mad. Some remain so.”
Samuel Beckett Quotes Source: Waiting for Godot
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“Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 565)
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“Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'Tis the majority
In this, as all, prevails
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.”
Emily Dickinson Quotes Source: Poems (XI (1891 ed.))
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“For those whom God to ruin has designed
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Fables--The Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 2,387)
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“There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Spanish Friar (act II, st. 1)
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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Spanish Friar (act II, st. 1)
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“The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts,
is a power behind the eye.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Essays--Conduct of Life--Of Behaviour
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“But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,
Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]”
Euripides Quotes Source: Fragment (25), (Baine's edition)
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“But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes
of his understanding.”
James Baillie Fraser Quotes Source: Short History of the Hindostan Emperors of the Moghol Race (p. 57)
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“Mad as a March hare.”
James O. Halliwell Quotes Source: Archaic Diet (vol. II, Art, "March Hare")
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“He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is
infected with the same disease.
[Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod
Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 120)
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“Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
[Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 158)
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“Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
[Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 326)
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“I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 81)
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“Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please
children and be made the subject of declamation.
[Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,
Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (X, 166)
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“O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see his glaring eyes:
Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.
Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe,
Such screams to hear, such sights to see!
My brain, my brain,--I know, I know
I am not mad but soon shall be.”
Matthew Gregory Lewis ("Monk Lewis") Quotes Source: The Maniac
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