I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by…

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“My definition of LUNATIC ASYLUM: A place where lunatics are created.”

— Jim Fergus

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal…

— Albert Einstein

I am a regular young man surrounded...

— Barrington Irving

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

— Jane Austen

“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.”

— Richard Russo

The proud and arrogant man is surrounded by enemies, but the kind hearted man attracts valuable friends.

— Ore Abayomi

No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.

— William S Burroughs

America is a lunatic asylum.

— Ezra Pound

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron… I should have been able to do better.

— Ezra Pound

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

— Margaret Atwood

If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

— George Orwell

People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment…

— David Stove

In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane.

— Homer