Mad Quotes - Page 12

• We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Running, Teaching, World

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• Art = a mad search for individualism.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Individualism

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• I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Men, Tone, Killing

  Source: collider.com

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• The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

  Rajneesh

  Names, Perfection, Ready

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• Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Player, Chess, Orthodoxy

  Orthodoxy ch. 2 (1908)

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• He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

  Horace

  Insanity, Majority, Disease

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, Satires, II. 120, 1922.

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• Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more

  Ovid

  Desire

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• Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

  William Cowper

  Sports, Country, Forever

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.156, Routledge

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• God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Wicked, Degrees

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.259

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• The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Eye, Yellow, Orange

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• I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

  Peter Wolf

  Health, Thinking, Doctors

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• People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, People, Magnitude

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• It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!

  Robert W. Service

  Song, Cheer, War

  Robert William Service, “Carry On”

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• It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

  Joy Browne

  Women, Kids, Parent

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• If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.

  Roberto Clemente

  Inspirational, Anger, Energy

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• Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.

  Jewel

  Song, Love You, Eye

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• Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Lying, Hate

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• Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

  Will Rogers

  Men, America, Laughing

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.229, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dream, Lying, Giving

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.453, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• To become successful you will have to get mad about your current situation. After you get mad, get motivated to do something about it.

  Jon Jones

  Motivational, Successful, Motivated

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• Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Essentials

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• Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?"
  "Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it."

  Alexander Woollcott

  War, Sight, Cities

  "The Paris Taxi-Driver Considered as an Artist". "Enchanted Aisles". Book by Alexander Woollcott, 1924.

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• Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Humorous, Sleep

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 1 (1896)

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• The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

  Jacques Chirac

  Mad Cow Disease, Agriculture, Done

  "Chirac jokes about British food". news.bbc.co.uk. July 4, 2005.

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• When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.

  Matt de la Pena

  Mom, Brother, Book

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