Mad Quotes

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

And I’m not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that’s motor racing.

Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don’t get mad, get everything.