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No sane man will dance. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. -- Carl Jung
Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not? -- Luciano Pavarotti
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. -- A. J. Liebling
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.' -- Graham Swift
I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time. -- John Cleese
A man who is 100% sane is dead. -- Rajneesh
Art is man determined to die sane. -- Bernard DeVoto
Every man has a sane spot somewhere. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion. -- Joe R. Lansdale
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration! -- Malcolm X
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society? -- Joseph Heller
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane? -- Henry David Thoreau
No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts. -- H. L. Mencken
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never! -- William Osler
He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. -- George Santayana
Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church? -- Arthur Judson
A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality. -- Salman Rushdie
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage. -- George S. Patton
Hate is a powerful emotion. It can take over a sane man's mind and cloud it with insanity. -- James Hauenstein
When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well. -- Euripides
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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. -- Mark Twain
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man? -- Maxim Gorky
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. -- Franz Schubert
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane. -- Thomas Pynchon
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! -- H. P. Lovecraft
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad. -- Edward Bond
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. -- Ezra Pound
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself. -- Lora Leigh
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being. -- John Myers
Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society? -- Joseph Heller
I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact. -- William S. Burroughs

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