Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

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

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

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

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

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