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There is always some madness in love

  There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. - Edgard Varese You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. - Salvador Dali In a mad world only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein (attributed) There is no great genius without some touch of madness. - Seneca If you don't risk anything you risk even more. - Erica Jong Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy READ MORE

10 Quotes

Mark Twain. Photo: American Heritage Trees Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. - Mark Twain I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. - John F. Kennedy The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? - Cicero Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. - Gore Vidal Never give advice unless asked. - German Proverb Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld In love, one and one are one. - Jean-Paul Sartre Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. - Samuel Johnson