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Sunday, May 5th, 2024
the <>Sixth Sunday after Easter
the <>Sixth Sunday after Easter
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Sermon Quotations Archive
Quotations regarding 'Madness'
Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
Alcuin, English Clergyman
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis, Scythian Philosopher
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
Frank Auerbach, German Artist (1931- )
Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
Tom Baker, Actor (1934- )
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
J. G. Ballard, British Author (1930- )
Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish Dramatist (1600-1681)
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish Dramatist (1600-1681)
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish Dramatist (1600-1681)
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842- )
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik, Spanish Designer (1942- )
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
Nellie Bly, American Journalist (1864-1922)
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader (1769-1821)
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
Georg Brandes, Danish Critic (1842-1927)
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
Hermann Broch, German Writer (1886-1951)
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist (1925-2008)
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting, British Poet (1900- )
