<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Insanity - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind  To suffer with the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21030]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind  To suffer with the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21031]]></link><description><![CDATA[No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21032]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is more or less mad on one point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is more or less mad on one point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21038]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21039]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21025]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res effundere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21026]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad. [Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21022]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad. [Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21023]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,  Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21014]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad as a March hare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad as a March hare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21016]]></link><description><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod  Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,  Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks;  He comes--I see his glaring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21021]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21003]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21004]]></link><description><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is my only means of relaxation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is my only means of relaxation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born mad. Some remain so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born mad. Some remain so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21009]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/338</guid></item></channel></rss>