Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw
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That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla
His horror is wild, but it is a sane horror.
G. K. Chesterton
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
I don't really trust a sane person.
Lyle Alzado
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
J. G. Ballard
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brinkley
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
Akira Kurosawa
Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.
Gloria Naylor
If a sane dog fights a mad dog, it's the sane dog's ear that is bitten off.
Burmese Proverb
What's kept me sane is I still love making music, and I always have my ear to the street.
Bret Michaels
Most of us are sane enough not to carry out strange, intrusive thoughts. Jon McGee was not able to do that in the hotel room.
Peter Berger
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
Maxine Hong Kingston
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
Alfred E. Smith
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Nora Ephron
Everything they said about me was so full of lying. It wasn't funny. None of that stuff was true. I am totally sane. I didn't do drugs.
Aileen Wuornos
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
Janet Long
That's what New Orleans does. It's part of our DNA, the whole idea of going a little crazy to keep yourself sane.
Fred Leblanc
I know in my mind that she went right up to heaven. I know she forgave her mother. She knows her mother was not in a sane mind. I know. She is forgiving. ... It's such a shock.
Jennifer Czajka
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
Mark Twain
It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.
Natalie Goldberg
My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. My one sister is a motorcycle freak, my other sister is a Holy Roller evangelist and my brother is running for president. I'm the only sane one in the family.
Billy Carter
'The sane person prides himself on his ability to be unaffected by important facts, and interested in unimportant ones. He refers to this as having a sense of perspective, or keeping things 'in proportion'.'
Celia Green
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.
Thomas S. Szasz
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Margaret Anderson
Fundraising can make normally sane people pretty crazy. They both have political goals for which they are raising money, and they are drawing from the same base.
Dan Schnur
The comments and actions of the Congressional Black Caucus were morally opprobrious and divisive. It is beneath the level of sane discourse for the Congressional Black Caucus to suggest that blacks are suffering more than the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been displaced.
Mychal Massie
I don't know that [peer-to-peer networking] is too fringy for corporations, assuming we can get a standards body together to make it all safe, sane, and secure.
Cheryl Currid
If being sane is being normal, I'd rather be completely mental.
Angelina Jolie
It's an act of madness. Someone who is mentally sane does not open fire on journalists simply trying to do their work.
Mahmoud Abaza
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.
George Orwell
We are here to teach. It's what we like to do -- it keeps us crazy and sane at the same time.
Tim Marchant
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.
Graham Swift
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Ursula K. LeGuin
The list was conceived as a way to recognize some of the organizations leading the way in the knowledge economy. Sane Solutions continues to redefine and enhance the Web analytics market with their dedication to innovation in knowledge management. Its inclusion in this list for a second year in a row is well deserved.
Hugh Mckellar
Me, and I believe everyone in the audience, could not conceive of a sane person doing these things.
Steve Osburn
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
Bram Stoker
It's made all the difference. We're all more sane. We're less panicked and we're less tired, at least before the festival ends on Sunday.
Dale Pollock
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.
Emily Rossum
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.
Edward Dahlberg
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