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Some are born mad. Some remain so.

Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.

Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Tis the majority In this, as all, prevails Assent, and you are sane; Demur,--you're straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain.

For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!

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

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind.

But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding.

Mad as a March hare.

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

I teach that all are men are mad.

Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation.

O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks; He comes--I see his glaring eyes: Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes. Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe, Such screams to hear, such sights to see! My brain, my brain,--I know, I know I am not mad but soon shall be.

It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.

My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum.

They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?