“There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.”
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A Discord of Trumpets (1956)
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“There’s nothing quite so pernicious as wishful thinking.”
James K. Morrow book Towing Jehovah
Source: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 11, “War” (p. 285)
“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”
Flannery O’Connor book The Violent Bear It Away
Source: The Violent Bear It Away
“Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.”
T. H. White (1906–1964) author
England Have My Bones (1936)
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer
Source: Conversations With Nadine Gordimer
“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.”
Nihil aliud esse ebrietatem quam voluntariam insaniam.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXIII: On Drunkenness, Line 18.
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Variant: There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)