Mark Twain Quotes

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

All I want to be is normally insane.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

I'm not a madman.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

Insanity is contagious.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

I don't really trust a sane person.

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.