Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
The Ad-dressing of Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
Context: You now have learned enough to see
That Cats are much like you and me
And other people whom we find
Possessed of various types of mind.
For some are sane and some are mad
And some are good and some are bad
And some are better, some are worse —
But all may be described in verse.
“To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.”
"The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment" in The Country of Marriage (1973).
Poems
“In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.”
The Overman Culture (1971)
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”
Ran (1985)
Variant: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
The Ad-dressing of Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“A man becomes successful by repressing his feelings, not expressing his feelings.”
Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 16.
Incoherency of New Ideas
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
