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"They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now."
"We're all mad here."
"Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity."
"Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had."
"Only the mad girls chase me, I think."
"True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute."
"Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in a world that is afraid of everything. Be as healthy as you want to be in a world that is mostly sick. Don't let the statistics that someone else created affect you."
"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."
"Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad."
"In a Tim Burton movie, you know it's going to be something unusual, or a bit mad. Something "other.""
"I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely."
"You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips."
"I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."
"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"
"There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
"We all are born mad. Some remain so."
"But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin."
"how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet"
"It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad."
"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."
