Charles Mackay Quotes

#1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL. D.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.

Charles Mackay

#3. Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future..

Charles Mackay

#4. The king can drink the best of wine -So can I;And has enough when he would dine -So have I;And can not order rain or shine -Nor can I.Then where's the difference - let me see -Betwixt my lord the king and me?

Charles Mackay

#5. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.

Charles Mackay

#6. Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.

Charles Mackay

#7. But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done.

Charles Mackay

#8. Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

George Gilder

#9. Blood, fat, marrow, grease, sinew, muscle, guts, hide, fur, sleep
They may twitch in their dreams when they sleep
but they sleep deep

Toby Barlow

#10. Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

Charles Mackay

#11. Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.

Charles Mackay

#12. Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

Charles Mackay

#13. War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

Charles Mackay

#14. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

Charles Mackay

#15. The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

Rickie Lee Jones

#17. There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming.

Charles Mackay

#18. An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

Charles Mackay

#19. Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

Charles Mackay

#20. If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Charles Mackay

#21. Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Charles Mackay

#22. Racial inequality is a big problem.

Hillary Clinton

#23. Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

Charles Mackay

#24. Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Charles Mackay

#25. I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.

Gary Panter

#26. In February 1720 an edict was published, which, instead of restoring the credit of the paper, as was intended, destroyed it irrecoverably, and drove the country to the very brink of revolution ...

Charles Mackay

#27. And she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all.
"Holling," she said. "I was so afraid I wouldn't fine you."
"I was standing right here, Heather." I said. "I'll always be standing right here.

Gary D. Schmidt

#28. We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

Stefan Zweig

#29. There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Charles Mackay

#30. Many persons grow insensibly attached to that which gives them a great deal of trouble, as a mother often loves her sick and ever-ailing child better than her more healthy offspring.

Charles Mackay

#31. Truth ... and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

Charles Mackay

#32. People aren't throwing themselves at me, but I also don't go out very much. Like, when I do go out, it's for breakfast, so it's a little hard to throw yourself at me during breakfast.

John Krasinski

#33. Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.

Charles Mackay