It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
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.
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum
I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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