When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. My uncle says the two always go together. Ray Bradbury, The Meadow (1947), originally a radio play for the World Security Workshop later revised into a short-story for the anthology The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953).It depends on who has who locked in what cage. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves at odds with the majority in short, unusual. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1906).It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.Edward Bellamy in Looking Backward, 2000-1887, Ch.
Insanity, for instance, which in the nineteenth century was so terribly common a product of your insane mode of life, has almost disappeared, with its alternative, suicide. Certainly, an improvement of the species ought to follow such a change. Instead of these maleficent circumstances, all now enjoy the most favorable conditions of physical life the young are carefully nurtured and studiously cared for the labor which is required of all is limited to the period of greatest bodily vigor, and is never excessive care for one's self and one's family, anxiety as to livelihood, the strain of a ceaseless battle for life-all these influences, which once did so much to wreck the minds and bodies of men and women, are known no more. burdens laid on women, enfeebled the very springs of life. In your day, riches debauched one class with idleness of mind and body, while poverty sapped the vitality of the masses by overwork, bad food, and pestilent homes.Kingsley Amis, Stanley and the Women, p.The rewards for being sane may not be very many but knowing what's funny is one of them. They're laughing because they're mad, too mad to be able to tell what's funny any more.
When they laugh at things the rest of us don't think are funny, like the death of a parent, they're not being penetrating, and on other occasions they're not wryly amused at at the simplicity and stupidity of the psychiatrist, however well justified that might be in many cases. Schizophrenics aren't clever or wise or witty - they may make some very odd remarks but that's because they're mad, and there's nothing to be got out of what they say. It tells us nothing about what they do in the rest of their lives, gives no insight into the human condition and has no lesson for sane people except how sane they are.
Achish king of Gath, Bible, Samuel I, 21:15.Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence?.Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.Arranged alphabetically by author or source:
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