Sane Quotes

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

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

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

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.

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck.

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

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

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.

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

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.

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.

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.

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

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.

No sane man will dance.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.