Mad Quotes - Page 44
Woody Guthrie (2013). “Una casa di Terra”, p.25, Edizioni Mondadori
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.291
W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.52, Random House
I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.
'The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves' (1762) ch. 6
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Sydney J. Harris (1972). “For the Time Being”
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.
Robert South (1827). “Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and Character”, p.413
"Venice, the Place and the People: Salve Venetia; Gleanings from Venetian History, Vol. 2". Book by Francis Marion Crawford, Macmillan, p. 32, "Report of the sitting of the Tribunal of the Inquisition on Saturday July eighteenth, 1573" transl. by Charles Yriarte, 1909.
Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.
Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”
Marquis de Sade (2016). “Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand
Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.15, Macmillan