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Mad Quotes - Page 39

God made the integers, man made the rest.

Quoted in F Cajori A History of Mathematics (1919).

I stand by every mistake I've ever made, so judge away.

"Kristen Stewart: Girl on the Edge". Interview with Karl Taro Greenfeld, www.marieclaire.com. February 10, 2014.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.80, Routledge

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.2290, e-artnow

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, Satires, II. 120, 1922.

When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt