Madness

III. ii.439 (293,5) [to a living humour of madness] If this be the true reading we must by _living_ understand _lasting_, or _permanent_, but I cannot forbear to think that some antithesis was intended which is now lost; perhaps the passage stood thus, _I drove my suitor from a_ dying _humour of love to a living humour of madness_. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

The whole thing - coupled with the normal end of the term madness - makes me want to jump in the car and drive until I hit a major metropolitan area that has luxurious hotels and fabulous restaurants. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He not only suffered a spectacular bout of what he called madness but also wrote an extraordinarily vivid account of it in his short novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, which he freely admitted was a thinly disguised account of what had happened to him on a 1954 voyage to Ceylon to restore his health. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

This madness is accelerating and most recently the broader the political sweeps and swings, the larger the plant, the bigger the EU grant, the more irrational the H&S directives - so the faster we gather speed in our headlong surge toward the total annihilation of what used to look just right. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

There is method to my title madness *grin* Please bear with me. ❋ Orannia (2009)

One theory behind this madness is the World Baseball Classic has thrown off pitchers 'spring routines, which would account for some dead arms, while others are working to build their stamina. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This one is appropriately named Noah's Ark. And like the biblical sanctuary, they enter in twos, escaping what they call the madness outside. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it happens that what we call madness is both reasonable and just. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)

This form of inspiration is not clearly distinguishable from what we call madness; indeed the natives do not attempt to distinguish between the two things; they regard the madman and the prophet as both alike inspired by a ghost or spirit, and a man will sometimes pretend to be mad in order that he may get the reputation of being a prophet. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

I am glad you've told me -- yes, everything -- and I'm glad that what you call your madness is over. ❋ George Chetwynd Griffith (1881)

In the face of such evidence of what they called our madness, Sir Thorn and Mrs. Brian dared not oppose our plans any longer. ❋ ��mile Gaboriau (1852)

Turkey's prime minister has lashed out at Cyprus and Israel for what he described as their "madness for an oil search" in the Mediterranean, the state media reported Wednesday. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Turkish PM lashes out at Cyprus, Israel over oil Turkey's prime minister has lashed out at Cyprus and Israel for what he described as their "madness for an oil search" in the Mediterranean, the state media reported Wednesday. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Lord Glistonbury remonstrated against what he termed the madness of the scheme. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

Ludwig moved to Alberta's Peace River region in 1985 to insulate his alternative Christian community from what he called the madness of modern life. ❋ Unknown (2010)