Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Player Quotes, Mad Quotes

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

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Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

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When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.

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In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

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I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

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The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

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There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

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There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.

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A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

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He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

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Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

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He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

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This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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