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Eve of Pentacost
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Quotations regarding 'Madness'

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It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.
Gerd von Rundstedt, German Soldier (1875-1953)
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher (1872-1970)
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
John Russell, American Actor (1921-  )
Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana, American Philosopher (1863-1952)
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca, -
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer (1667-1745)
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
Terence, Roman Writer
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Historian (1876-1962)
A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.
Gloria Trevi, Mexican Musician (1968-  )
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike, American Novelist (1932-2009)
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike, American Novelist (1932-2009)
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire, French Writer (1694-1778)
The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
Otto Weininger, Austrian Philosopher (1880-1903)
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams, American Comedian (1952-  )
Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
Mike Wilson, -
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
Naomi Wolf, American Author (1962-  )
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon, Greek Soldier
 
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