Dan Quayle Quotes

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

...it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing was wrong; or, if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

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.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

The idea of a mentally ill vice president who suffers in complete isolation was obviously sparked by the behaviors I witnessed by Sarah Palin. What if somebody who was ill-equipped for the office were to ascend to the presidency or vice presidency? What would they do? How long would it take for people to figure it out?

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

[General William Tecumseh] Sherman is gone in the head.

I can only presume that you have gone out of your mind.

News outlets use words like erratic, volatile, unstable but rarely are Trump's words and actions covered as a whole and rarely do news outlets take it to that next level.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.