Zachary Taylor Quotes

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

Every senator I know would like to be President. The question is do they want to run to be President.

If George W. Bush is a reformer, I'm an astronaut!

Romney is pretending to be something he is not. He is renting the Republican party in order to fulfill his ambition of being President. The Republican party is renting Romney in order to fulfill its ambition of beating Barack Obama.

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

You can't just play crazy. It makes you push yourself to stay in the realm of reality. And when you do that, it's a lot funnier. That's my favorite, when you think it's a real strange person and not just someone being wacky.

Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

I've never said flange to a monkey!

I'm not superstitious. I don't really believe in star signs, sorry, or superstitions.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

She [Alice] went on "And how do you know that you're mad?" "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" "I suppose so," said Alice. "Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.