Skip to content

Asylums Quote by Mark Twain

“The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.” quote by Mark Twain — Download Open image

“The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Asylums Building Building materials Funny Ifs Insane Insanity Insanity and sanity Madness and insanity Madness and sanity Materials People Running Sane Should Shut up Way

More by Mark Twain

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

Image

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

Image

“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…

Image

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

Image

“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”

Image

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

Image

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Image

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

Image

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

Image

“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…

Image

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Image

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

Image

Explore all 3,277 Mark Twain quotes

More Asylums quotes

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.…

Image

3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is…

Christopher Brookmyre

Image

If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against…

Image

Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital…

Image

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

Albert Einstein

Image

I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed…

George Washington

Image

This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some…

William Wells Brown

Image

The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.

Image

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

Image

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Image

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…

Image

I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of seeking asylum…

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Image

Browse all 208 Asylums quotes