Mad

Famous quotes containing the word mad:

“Some men there are love not a gaping pig,
Some that are mad if they behold a cat,
And others when the bag-pipe sings i’th nose
Cannot contain their urine.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“[T]he most artful method [of courtship] would be this, to tell her that what she doth not possess is useless and contemptible, that weakness and imperfection is the perfection of a woman, that I am stark mad in love with ignorance; and thus shall I allure her by calling her [a] fool.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.”
—Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)