A long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.
-Charles
Manson
All things considered, insanity is the only alternative.
-Unattributed
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
-H.P.
Lovecraft
America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be
harder to make a living that way.
-Charles Pierce
Being crazy isn't enough.
-Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
Don't call me irrational. It makes me crazy when you do that.
-Unattributed
(From the TV series Frasier)
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely
insane every night of our lives.
-William Dement
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
-Steve
Landesberg
I am not insane, you just have no context.
-Velut Luna
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
-Unattributed
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground
laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a
diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not
who writes the nation's laws.
-S.J. Perelman
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but
they've always worked for me.
-Hunter S. Thompson
I plead contemporary insanity. (T-shirt)
-Unattributed
I sent my desk calendar to a psychiatrist. The schedule was insane.
-Carol
Simpson
I'll take crazy over stupid any day.
-Joss Whedon
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an "information
highway," but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
-Mike
Royko
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed
contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
-John
Steinbeck
If you spend all of your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll
be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.
-Scott Adam
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're
going to be locked up.
-Hunter S. Thompson
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is
reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go
mad, and cashiers, but creative artists very seldom.
-G.K.
Chesterton
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
-J.G.
Ballard
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
-Oscar Wilde
In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.
-Johnny
Carson
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane
people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
-Nora Ephron
Insanity in the individual is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and
epochs, it is the rule.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Insanity is contagious.
-Joseph Heller
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting
different results.
-Rita Mae Brown
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a raise.
-Robert
Brault
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind over-taxed.
-Oliver
Wendell Holmes
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
-Ray
Bradbury
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
-Philip
K. Dick
Madness may be a sane response to an insane world, and insanity breeds
special perceptions.
-R.D. Laing
Madness takes it toll. Please have exact change.
-Unattributed
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.
-Austin
O'Malley
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the
maddest of all.
-Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best,
reformed or potential lunatics.
-Susan Sontag
Mothers are all slightly insane.
-J.D. Salinger
My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
-Spike
Milligan
My grandmother was insane. She had pierced hearing aids.
-Steven
Wright
Never tell a crazy person he's crazy.
-Tina Fey
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper
occasions.
-Henry Ward Beecher
No sane man will dance.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of a sane man there is only one safe definition. He is a man who can
have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
-G.K. Chesterton
Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
-Robert
Anton Wilson
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely
stupid.
-Heinrich Heine
Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
-Scott
Adams
Sanity is a cozy lie.
-Susan Sontag
Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
-N.F. Simpson
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected.
-Robert
Pirsig
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
-Carl Jung
Some are born mad. Some remain so.
-Samuel Beckett
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
-Hunter S. Thompson
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.
-William
Saroyan
The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.
-Unattributed
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes- the Sancho Panzas who
have a sense for reality, but no ideals; and, the Don Quixotes, with a
sense for ideals, but mad.
-George Santayana
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to be
insane in such a useful way that they can't commit you.
-Mark
Edwards
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is
suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best
friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-Rita Mae Brown
There are worse things than being mad.
-Jack Kerouac
There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none
but madmen know!
-John
Dryden
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this
line.
-Oscar Levant
This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.
-P.J.
O'Rourke
This is a mournful discovery.
1) Those who agree with you are insane
2)
Those who do not agree with you are in power.
-Philip K. Dick
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who did not
hear the music.
-Angela Monet
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with
imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the
morning.
-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
-Henrik
Tikkanen
Warning: the Internet may contain traces of nuts.
-Unattributed
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great
extent, to be sociable.
-John Updike
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
-Hermann
Hesse
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life
stands explained.
-Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual
who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often,
that individual is crazy.
-Dave Barry
When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought,
heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable,
remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.
-Alan
Moore
Would it not be more economical for the governments to build asylums for
the sane instead of the demented?
-Kahlil Gibran
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy,
the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France
is accusing the United States of arrogance, and Germany doesn't want to
go to war.
-Unattributed
You're only given a little spark of madness; you mustn't lose it.
-Robin
Williams
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