quotes on insanity

Whether he likes it or not, a man�s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. ~Anthony Holden



Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. ~John Terraine



Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ~James Matthew Barrie



I had burned my candle at both ends, and I was weary of these perilous and precarious adventures which had led me - whither? I was experiencing mental fatigue, a paralysis of my energies, and all my faculties were diminishing while still in their prime, sapped by neurasthenia. Ah, how I regretted not having followed the straight roads of life! ~"The Mission," Chapter 3



Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take. ~Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point, 1982



It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince



Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate. ~R.D. Laing



Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ~Daniel 5:27



Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk



It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ~Harry S Truman



When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ~Friedrich Nietzche



It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. ~Balzac, Physiologie du mariage, 1829



And--> all the soul-help that sad souls understand. ~Will Carleton



I get a kick out of soccer. ~Author Unknown



In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru



The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. ~Bern Williams



Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. ~Woodrow Wilson



It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb