People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. Iris Murdoch
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. George Jean Nathan
All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; 3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; 4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. Alban Berg
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. Baltasar Gracián
Better be mad with all the world than wise alone. French Proverb