Mad

Famous quotes containing the word mad:

    He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
    Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

    “With your air indifferent and imperious
    At a stroke our mad poetics to confute—”
    And—”Are we then so serious?”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    The planet’s survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
    Elias Canetti (b. 1905)