Sane Quotes

I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

I'll be the in to your sane.

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself.

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.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.