I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power.
I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.
If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson
Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
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.
Worse than madness. Sanity.
Who says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.
We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.
The sanest thing in this world is love.
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.
The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.
While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.
God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all?
This is why in a democracy, it is impossible for a politician to have universal support for anything.
I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
No one dances sober, unless he is insane.
I'm always quite rational.
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
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.
The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.