Insanity

23 quotes.

• Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  Attributed to Albert Einstein

• In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• Sanity is a cozy lie.

  Susan Sontag

• Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

  Yiddish proverb

• I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

  Hunter S. Thompson

• If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

  Will Rogers

• It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

  Mark Twain

• It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

• It's great to be young and insane.

  Michael Keaton, "Dream Team"

• Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

  Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

• Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.

  Anonymous

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Attributed to Albert Einstein

• Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

  Heinrich Heine

• Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

  George Santayana

• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  C. G. Jung

• There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

  Aristotle

• Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

  Henrik Tikkanen

• What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  Irv Kupcinet

• What do you take me for, an idiot?

  General Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970 when a journalist asked him if he was happy

• What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.

  Anonymous

• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  Ursula K. LeGuin

• You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

  Sacha Guitry

• You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond resonable doubt.

  Ed Meese, on the Hinckley verdict

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