Day: February 28, 2016

Are we insane?

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Humorous Quotes about
Insanity / Madness
  • In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ~ Akira Kurosawa
  • Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein
  • Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ~ Baltasar Gracian
  • I’m a nut, but not just a nut. ~ Bill Murray
  • The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~ Bruce Feirstein
  • Insanity doesn’t run in my family. It gallops. ~ Cary Grant
  • I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
  • Insanity in individuals is something rare — but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)
  • I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts.  ~ G.B. Burgin
  • No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
  • I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. ~ Isaac Newton
  • For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. ~ Jean Dubuffet
  • There is a pleasure, sure,
    In being mad, which none but madmen know!
    ~ John Dryden (The Spanish Friar)
  • You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.  ~Marcel Proust
  • When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~ Mark Twain
  • The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials. ~ Mark Twain
  • Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. ~ Nathaniel Emmons
  • Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
    ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table)
  • There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ~ Oscar Levant
  • I quite agree with Dr. Nordau’s assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordeau forgets that all sane people are idiots. ~ Oscar Wilde
  • To disagree with three-fourths of the British public on all points is one of the first elements of sanity. ~ Oscar Wilde
  • The statistics on sanity are that one out of every 4 Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you. ~ Rita Mae Brown
  • You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.  ~ Robin Williams
  • The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad. ~ Salvador Dali
  • We are all born mad. Some remain so. ~ Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
  • Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. ~ Samuel Levenson
  • Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. ~ Steve Landesberg
  • A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane. ~ Waylon Jennings
  • There is no insanity so devastating in man’s life as utter sanity. ~ William Allen White
  • I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? ~ William Saroyan
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ON THE MERRY GO ROUND

I rode on that horse on the Merry- Go- Round at the New Year Fair,

And every time I came around,Dad were standing there.

The horses they  went up and down,as it whirled around.

To me ,so small, they seemed so high,up above the ground.

You knew I loved those magic horses  more than owt at all,

Dad,you let me ride one,though Mam thought I were too small!

I shall never  forget the happiness in my heart imbued;

Yet  more than I loved those horses, Dad,I loved you.

I wish I were a child again and you were with us today

I think we’d recognize your voice,and  listen to what you’d say.

Why did God snatch you up ,it seemed to be so wrong.?

But thank you,Dad, for the Merry- Go- Round,and thank you for the songs.

I think that life’s like a Merry -Go- round that we are turning on.

And every time it whirls around.someone else has gone.

We don’t know how long we’ll ride our horses, so merry,and  so gay.

So enjoy the Revolution now,and  say what you  need to say.

Stan goes for therapy

Cat after therapy
Passion flowers

Stan is feeling low and sad.

His good wife Mary has gone mad.

Stan is feeling Guilt and Fear

He knows now that it’s wrong to leer.

Stan has been a naughty boy.

He let a mistress with him toy.

But Mary found his mobile phone

When she was at home all alone.

His mistress lived next door to him

Which made it convenient to sin.

While Mary worked hard teaching maths

The lovers lingered in the bath.

He was meant to do the chores.

Chopping wood and painting doors.

He had to bake the cakes and bread.

So that the household would be fed.

But Stan into temptation fell,

As did his neighbour Anne as well.

They enjoyed kisses and hugs,

And lying down in woolly rugs.

Oh  Mary, she was most appalled.

She screamed and yelled and cried and bawled.

So Stan has gone for therapy.

What sort of changes will he see?

He lies down on a long brown couch.

Behind which the therapist crouched.

He says to Stan,”now let it rip.

I want your mouth to be unzipped.”

Was your mother kind to you?

Did she train you on the loo?

Did she wash your mouth with soap?

Was she prone to sulk and mope?

Stan thought this man verbose.

So he kept his own lips close.

When he got the bill to pay.

He told the therapist, “No way”

“You have been the one to talk.”

He glared like a crusading hawk.

“You should pay me,not I pay you!”

What was his therapist going to do!

“I’m glad you’ve managed to speak out.

Your sanity is not in doubt.

I’ll tear the bill up for this week.

And next time I want you to speak.”

So Stan unleashed his every thought

Just as the Freudians once  taught.

I don’t know how he feels inside.

But language is a useful guide.

And as he sees his therapist,

His mistress is not greatly missed.

He  wanted more attention,

So now his bad ways are all gone!

He got a part time job as well.

So he could pay his therapy bill.

Mary is still teaching maths.

And now it’s she with whom he baths!