Madness On A Roll

No man is an Ireland. - Richard Daley

Humor is reason gone mad. - Groucho Marx

We are all born mad. Some remain so. - Samuel Beckett

Sanity is a madness put to good uses. - George Santayana

In a mad world only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. - Phyllis Diller

When love is not madness, it is not love. - Pedro Calderon

Female Friends: Women mad at the same person - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

He was not only a bore; he bored for England. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. - Sextus Propertius

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker

The man is either mad, or he is making verses. - Horace

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. - Lord Byron

Women in London must have learned not to breathe. - Irene Trimble

The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. - William Shakespeare

Britain's goal is not to survive, but to prevail. - Winston Churchill

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. - Allen Ginsberg

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. - Douglas Jerrold

There was never a great genius without a tincture of madness. - Aristotle

The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August. - Lord Byron

There'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood. - Bob Hope

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce. - Francesco Caracciolo

One half of the nation is mad - and the other half not very sound. - Tobias Smollett

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. - Harold MacMillan

England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person. - Jules Michelet

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. - Andre Gide

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. - George Best

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov

Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead

When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. - Goenka

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

You're only given a little spark of madness and if you lose that, you're nothing. - Robin Williams

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. - Groucho Marx

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The noblest prospect which a Scotsman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. - Samuel Johnson

The trouble with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, with absolutely no talent. - Hugh Leonard

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. - George Bernard Shaw

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. - Thomas Kettle

Oats: A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. - Pierce Brosnan

Let us build a church so great that those who come after us may thing us mad to have attempted it. - Unknown

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde

Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. - Norm Papernick

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. - Jay Leno

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. - Marilyn Monroe

If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. - Edward de Bono

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry, and he's got Mad Power Disease. - Paula Abdul

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde

Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over. - Robert Whitlow

Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur. - Don McCullin

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it. - Adam Ant

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork

Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing. - Elizabeth Cohen

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. - Geraldine Brooks

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. - Bernie Taupin