Mad Quotes

• We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • War
  • Justice
  • Crime

• I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

  

  Sue Townsend
  • Women
  • Mad
  • Trees

• Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Giving

• It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

  

  John H. Johnson
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Smart

• People call me the human emoji because I think people recognize that if I'm ever thinking something or feeling a certain emotion, it goes straight to my face. So if I'm happy, you'll know I'm happy, and if I'm mad, you'll know I'm mad just by looking at me.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • World
  • Mad

• I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• Helen Hunt is terrific, and I got to do a couple of guest spots with Helen and Paul Reiser on 'Mad About You.'

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • Couple
  • Mad

• I think she always nursed a small mad hope.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Mad
  • Nurse

• If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Sports
  • Mad

• This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Book
  • Mad
  • Sympathy

• The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Technology
  • Learning
  • Hell

• I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Sometimes

• We all go a little mad sometimes.

  

  Joseph Stefano
  • Sometimes
  • Mad

• Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

  

  Winston Smith
  • Mad
  • Sanity
  • Minority

• All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's "energy" used in a nonsensical way-don't get me started!

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Energy
  • Mad

• Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • People
  • Time
  • Blow

• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Question
  • Intelligence
  • Madness

• I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind; I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Opinion

• I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

  

  Charles de Lint
  • Mad

• I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Hurt
  • Mad
  • Heartbreak

• Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

  

  George Eliot
  • Mad
  • Monster

• One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Long

• I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Angry
  • Arguing
  • Pneumonia

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