Maxioms Pet

X
Share to:

You May Also Like   /   View all maxioms

  ( comments )
  22  /  27  

Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,
read more

Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Insanity Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  22  /  19  

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

  ( comments )
  24  /  15  

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

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

by John Dryden Found in: Insanity Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  14  /  22  

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Insanity Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  28  /  17  

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

by Bruce Feirstein Found in: Insanity Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  34  /  35  

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger
that is felt towards men?
[Lat., read more

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger
that is felt towards men?
[Lat., Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res
effundere.]

  ( comments )
  21  /  16  

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
[Lat., O major tandem parcas, read more

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
[Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]

  ( comments )
  21  /  27  

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

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

by Samuel Butler Found in: Insanity Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  34  /  40  

But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini read more

But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,
Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]

by Euripides Found in: Insanity Quotes,
Share to:
Maxioms Web Pet