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John Dryden2 quotes
Great wits are sure to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. — John Dryden · 1681There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know! — John Dryden · 1680William Shakespeare2 quotes
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. — William Shakespeare · 1616It is the very error of the moon.
She comes more nearer Earth than she was wont
And makes men mad. — William Shakespeare · 1604Aristotle1 quote
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. — Aristotle · 60G.K. Chesterton1 quote
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908Mark Twain1 quote
No man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in one way or another all men are mad. — Mark Twain · 1910Mugatu1 quote
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! — Mugatu · 2001Nicholas Conyngham Tindal1 quote
To establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. — Nicholas Conyngham Tindal · 1843Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.1 quote
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. · 1831R.D. Laing1 quote
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R.D. Laing · 1967Rita Mae Brown1 quote
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. — Rita Mae Brown · 1983