#mad

Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#insanity #madness #idea

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#commentary #gay #honesty #lesbian #lgbt

And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tale when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#cats #cheshire-cat #madness #dog

Sanity is a madness put to good uses. ↗

— George Santayana

#sanity #write

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death #end #enough #far #keep

Constant vigilance! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#eyes

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. ↗

— Aristotle

#genius #great-minds #madness #mind

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#knowledge #madness #doubt

Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if— as the war ends, or at least starts to end— if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there— Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it? ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#memory-hole #mistake #politics #rachel-maddow #war

First sign of madness, talking to your own head. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#madness #talking