Madness Quotes
A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.
I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.
In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.
The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.
I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.
I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.
The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.
You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.
So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.
... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.
Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.
I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
