Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emil Cioran
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
Emily Dickinson
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
R. D. Laing
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.
EURIPIDES
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Norm Papernick
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.
Robert Burton
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
I made it very clear to the Congress that the use of federal money, taxpayers' money to promote science which destroys life in order to save life is I'm against that. And therefore, if the bill does that, I will veto it.
George Walker Bush
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo