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.

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

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

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.

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

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.

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 I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.