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.


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And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER
Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN
Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu...
EDWARD HENNESSY
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
EDWARD GIBBON
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u...
EDWARD TELLER
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
EDWARD EDWARDS
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
EDWARD GIBBON