Waiting for Godot
We all are born mad. Some remain so.
Bunyan John 1628-1888
The Pilgrim's Progress
A man there was, tho' some did count him mad,
The more he cast away, the more he had.
Burton Robert 1577-1640
The Anatomy of Melancholy
All poets are mad.
Coward Noël 1899-1973
‘Mad about the Boy'
Mad about the boy,
It's pretty funny but I'm mad about the boy.
He has a gay appeal
That makes me feel
There may be something sad about the boy.
Coward Noël 1899-1973
‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen'
Mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
Dirksen Everett 1896-1969
Three Laws of Politics:
1.Get elected.
2.Get re-elected
3.Don't get mad, get even.
George II King 1683-1760
(of General Wolfe)
Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Kim
The mad all are in God's keeping.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Plain Tales from the Hills
Every one is more or less mad on one point.
Kyd Thomas 1558-1594
The Spanish Tragedy
I am never better than when I am mad. Then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders. But reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.
LAMB Lady Caroline 1785-1828
(on first meeting Lord Byron)
Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
McGregor Jimmy
‘Football Crazy'
Oh, he's football crazy, he's football mad
And the football it has robbed him o' the
wee bit sense he had.
Morley Christopher 1890-1957
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant.
All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
‘An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot'
And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad,
It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
Reagan Ronald
(of Col. Gadaffi of Libya)
This mad dog of the Middle East.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Hamlet
I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Julius Caesar
You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
King Lear
O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven;
Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
'Sonnet: England in 1819'
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king.
Smollett Tobias 1721-1771
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
I think for my part one half of the nation is mad
- and the other not very sound.
Swinburne Algernon Charles 1937-1909
‘Ballad of François Villon'
Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.
Thomas Dylan 1914-1953
‚And death shall have no dominion'
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.