"'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more; For where your case can be no worse, The desp'rat'st is the wisest course."

"Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores, Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes."

"A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health."

"Medicus carat, Natura sanat morbus."

"is but a small part of physic; medical cannot be separated from moral science without reciprocal and essential mutilation."

"You are right, Mr. Bond. That is just what I am, a maniac. All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania that drives them towards their goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders — all maniacs."

"Because the insanity defense is a key part of our criminal-justice system, which is founded on the belief that people normally choose whether or not to obey the law. Certain people, we have said historically, cannot make that choice, however, either because they are too young or because of severe mental retardation or mental illness. The insanity defense exists in practically every civilized country. It is not some kind of aberration, as some seem to be suggesting in the wake of the Hinckley verdict."

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!"

"Mad Hatter: You are trying to understand madness with logic. This is not unlike searching for darkness with a torch."

"Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [...] Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity."

"The Royal College has taken a very dubious function of intervening into the inner affairs of national psychiatric associations and using mentally-ill patients for political purposes. I sincerely hope that none of the members… seriously believes that in the Soviet Union mentally-healthy people could be forcibly put into mental hospitals."

":Madness, then, varies and fluctuates: it cannot "re-word"—if the poet's observation be well founded; and though the Court would not at all rely upon it as an authority, yet it knows from the information of a most eminent physician that this test of madness, suggested by this passage, was found, by experiment in a recent case, to be strictly applicable, and discovered the lurking disease."

"::That I have uttered; bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word; which madness Would gambol from.""

":::"It is not madness"

"Hamlet, being charged with " coinage of the brain" answers:"

"A human creature deprived of reason, and disordered in his senses, is still an animal, or instrument possessing strength and ability to commit violence; but he is no more so than a mere mechanical machine, which, when put in motion, performs its powerful operations on all that comes in its way, without consciousness of its own effects, or responsibility for them. In like manner, the man under the influence of real madness, has properly no will, but does what he is not conscious or; sensible he is doing, and therefore cannot be made answerable for any consequences."

"Mad as a hatter."

"Insanus omnis furere credit ceteros."

"Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat primus."

"Fetter strong madness in a silken thread."

"You will never run mad, niece; No, not till a hot January."

"Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?"

"We are not ourselves When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind To suffer with the body."

"I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself."

"It shall be so: Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go."

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't"

"Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true."

"Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res effundere."

"Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiæ fuit."

"Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt."

"My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum."

"It’s a jungle out there Poison in the very air we breathe Do you know what’s in the water that you drink? Well I do, and it’s amazing People think I’m crazy, ’cause I worry all the time If you paid attention, you’d be worried too You better pay attention Or this world we love so much might just kill you I could be wrong now, but I don’t think so!"

"Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes."

"O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks; He comes—I see his glaring eyes; Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes. Help! Help! He's gone!—O fearful woe, Such screams to hear, such sights to see! My brain, my brain,—I know, I know I am not mad but soon shall be."

"I demens! et sævas curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias."

"O major tandem parcas, insane, minori."

"Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus."

"Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem."

"Doceo insanire omnes."

"Mad as a March hare."

"But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding."

"At dæmon, homini quum struit aliquid malum, Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam."

"The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye."

"There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!"

"For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind."

"Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Tis the majority In this, as all, prevails Assent, and you are sane; Demur,—you're straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain."

"Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts."

"We might liken the 'two selves' to Laurel and Hardy. Ollie is the objective mind, 'you'. Stan is the subjective mind, the 'hidden you'. But Stan happens to be in control of your energy supply. So if you wake up feeling low and discouraged, you (Ollie) tend to transmit your depression to Stan, who fails to send you energy, which makes you feel lower than ever. This vicious circle is the real cause of most mental illness."

"And thus also in Conversation he would say [...] That he knew not what to make of Providence, but by looking upon this World as a sort of Bedlam. Which minds me of a Story I have heard of One enquiring the way to Bedlam: To which the Other reply'd; If you mean Great Bedlam, you are now in it; but if you mean Little Bedlam, that is the way to it."

"“I am afraid,” said Memnon, “that our little terraqueous globe here is the madhouse of those hundred thousand millions of worlds of which your lordship does me the honor to speak.”"