Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.
Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
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