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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Quote by William Shakespeare about opinion

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in...

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Quote by Camille Paglia about television, reality, books, human imperfections, life

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's...

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy, soul

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of...

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Quote by Aristotel about genius

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to...

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about life

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

Quote by Sean Connery

I don't deal with that stepmom madness. I tell them, ...

I don't deal with that stepmom madness. I tell them, You've got a mother. There are no more steps to take. Step nothing. I'm their friend.

Quote by Whitney Houston about mother, nothing

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.

Quote by Whitney Houston about advertising, integrity, magic, people

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would...

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about man

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Quote by Edgar Lee Masters about life, longing, end

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Quote by Jonathan Swift about opinion

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not...

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Quote by Isaac Newton about opinion, people

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Quote by Irwin Allen Ginsberg about opinion

It is a madness to defy witout reason one's intelligence.

It is a madness to defy witout reason one's intelligence.

Quote by Giovanni Boccaccio about defiance, intelligence, reason

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Quote by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald about youth, dream

I feel closer to my Creator Because I constantly create madness With my sense of creativity Yet I fear that a relapse of insatiable insanity Is inevitable eventually.

Quote by Johnny Hampton about creation, creativity, fear, common sense, sense, god

We love too much from an excess of loneliness, wonder, ...

We love too much from an excess of loneliness, wonder, tenderness, poetry, madness...

Quote by Mariana Fulger about excess, solitude, miracle, poetry, love

I have touched her lips as only in the strongest and absurd love you can touch. Our bodies were vibrating. Although it took only a moment, for me at least, things had a tragic resonance: I had felt the love, in its purest form, transhuman, its...

Quote by Sorin Vidan about love, heart, existence, voice, absurd, history, rightness, moment, things

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't...

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Quote by Robin Williams about craziness

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