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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.]
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please
children and be made the subject of declamation.
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Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please
children and be made the subject of declamation.
[Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,
Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]
In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
