Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“You know those afternoons," he asks, drawing a shaking breath, "where you’re just going along, doing fine, and then afternoon comes and… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
“Two days in the capitol city and Elena had been reduced to wandering the halls at night, thinking on a man, of… — Stefanie Sloane Copy Share Image
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables. Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a day I would be grounded,… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“I was the outsider in Fernhall House, but they were all outsiders really. Outside society. Outside time. You hear people say that… — Jonathan Lee Copy Share Image
The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
You have twenty-four hours, horseguy, to kill your betrayer any way you see fit and to take your revenge. Make them count.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad… — Robert Goddard Copy Share Image
People are prospering from being unapologetically offensive, trite, and stupid. And we are tweeting ourselves into high blood pressure and ulcers trying… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in… — August Kleinzahler Copy Share Image
I'm screaming right in front of you calling out your name & wishing you'd hear me but I guess you'll not gonna… — Joanne Lobedica Copy Share Image
“Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish,… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
For the record, I've never taken a bung in my life. I might have enjoyed a meal or a bottle of wine… — Sam Allardyce Copy Share Image
Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In 'Mad Men,' we watch a group of people who live in a prosperous society that offers happiness and order like never… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
“WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think anything we do outside of Gym Class Heroes still falls under the Gym Class Heroes umbrella. There's really no method… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image