Top 100 Mad's Quotes

#1. If you were a kid in the 1950s, and you got nightmares from a story in a horror comic book, you have Al Feldstein to blame. If you were a kid in the '60s or '70s, giggling at 'MAD's prankster wit, you have Feldstein to thank.

Richard Corliss

Mad's Quotes #355968
#2. Oh, now... being mad's not all that bad.

A.G. Howard

Mad's Quotes #1742906
#3. I hate it when I get mad at myself because it's impossible to turn on my heel and walk away in a huff and refuse to speak to me again. I've tried it plenty of times, believe me.

Gary Reilly

Mad's Quotes #2768
#4. It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites
others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can.

SARK

Mad's Quotes #2937
#5. Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind ...

J.K. Rowling

Mad's Quotes #4191
#6. As Gansey led the way out, Noah said to Ronan, "I know why you're mad."
Ronan sneered at him, but his pulse heaved. "Tell me then, prophet."
Noah said, "It's not my job to tell other people's secrets.

Maggie Stiefvater

Mad's Quotes #4601
#7. I opened my mouth, mad enough to spit, and said loudly, "I don't eat iceberg lettuce!" Really? I asked myself. That's what you're going to throw down with? "I don't care what you eat, just don't be pickin' in there!

Piper Kerman

Mad's Quotes #5129
#8. You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.

Margaret Mitchell

Mad's Quotes #6009
#9. He wanted to dismiss Saint Rosaline's comments out of hand, but this was impossible because he knew that the comments came from the recesses of this own mink. Either that, or he was truly going mad, which at this point seemed like an attractive option.

Suzanne Harper

Mad's Quotes #8265
#10. It's like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to always feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means that you're happy, too.

Stephen Chbosky

Mad's Quotes #9738
#11. But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat, "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll

Shweta Ganesh Kumar

Mad's Quotes #14216
#12. Consider me no fool because my tongue is mad. I salt a truth with jest that it sound not dull and heavy. There is more than jig and cadence in my words. I am of stronger fiber than you think. If there comes a time for proof I shall not fail.

Charles S. Brooks

Mad's Quotes #14516
#13. I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion.

Vince Staples

Mad's Quotes #23296
#14. If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God's sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot.

James McBride

Mad's Quotes #25968
#15. A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

Barack Obama

Mad's Quotes #30043
#16. I'm here because I've lost my head. My mind is unhinged. That's what the doctors say.

A.G. Howard

Mad's Quotes #30611
#17. It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.

Ice-T

Mad's Quotes #31430
#18. That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

Agatha Christie

Mad's Quotes #31962
#19. One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day's work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day's work?'

David Heinemeier Hansson

Mad's Quotes #38471
#20. For a man it's like if something goes on on-stage you'll have a drink at the bar and talk about it. With a female artist it's a big deal, you have a meeting and she's mad at you for the next couple of shows!

Chris Johnson

Mad's Quotes #40655
#21. If you're going to expend energy being mad about Photoshop, you'll also have to be mad about earrings. No one's ears are that sparkly!

Tina Fey

Mad's Quotes #40902
#22. They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad. This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.

Lev Shestov

Mad's Quotes #41983
#23. The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts. The mad Queen said, "Off with his head! Off with his head! Off with his head!" Well ... that's too bad ... no more heads to cut.

Jun Mochizuki

Mad's Quotes #42693
#24. Truth, terrible truth! It is like an ancient curse, from which there is no escape. The truth will drive one mad. Yet without it, how can one make sense of life's madness?

Maryrose Wood

Mad's Quotes #44327
#25. Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.

Aaron Staton

Mad's Quotes #49749
#26. You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think.
-Angela the Herbalist

Christopher Paolini

Mad's Quotes #54012
#27. Caroline, I'm mad enough to beat the shit out of you. But I'm not so mad I can't think. You fingered me to the cops because there's something you know that you're scared to talk about. I want to know what it is.

Sara Paretsky

Mad's Quotes #60032
#28. Don't turn around.
'Cuz you will get punched in the face.
Don't make this worse.
You've already gone and got me mad.
It's too bad, I'm not sad
It's casting over.
Just one of those things you'll have to get over it.

Avril Lavigne

Mad's Quotes #60703
#29. If you're in a business where you can do only one thing and it doesn't work out, it's hard for your bosses to be mad at you.

Michael Lewis

Mad's Quotes #66655
#30. I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

Natascha McElhone

Mad's Quotes #67241
#31. Oftentimes when I do a project I do get influenced by the wardrobe. I certainly learned a lot from Mad Men and from Janie (Bryant) in particular. She's just so fabulous.

Christina Hendricks

Mad's Quotes #67537
#32. Brother, you are mad," said the queen. "He loves me," Roshar protested. The cub was sleeping huddled against Rosher's leg. "And when it has grown, and is large enough to eat a man?" "Then I'll make Arin take care of him.

Marie Rutkoski

Mad's Quotes #71909
#33. I get offered: 'Here's a girl who's mad at another girl for having a wedding on the same day.' That'll be a big hit, but I don't want to do that.

Amy Heckerling

Mad's Quotes #73241
#34. You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'

Christina Hendricks

Mad's Quotes #73895
#35. Oh, most think he's barking, the potty wee lad, but some are more kindly and think he's just sad, but Peevesy knows better and says that he's mad.

J.K. Rowling

Mad's Quotes #77958
#36. Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you're sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with joy, and your heart's a boulder n your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces all at once?"
"Mm-hmm." He finished his ale. "That would be love.

Jacqueline Carey

Mad's Quotes #80315
#37. You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.'
Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's ... almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.

Mira Grant

Mad's Quotes #87990
#38. I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

Lynda Barry

Mad's Quotes #89415
#39. How does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have.

Master P

Mad's Quotes #89623
#40. Girls aren't supposed to see wieners, Aunt Dee. And Daddy's wiener was mad that Mommy saw. It was so mad, it was pointing at her!

Harper Sloan

Mad's Quotes #91701
#41. You've got to think ahead from what you're about to say. I might be mad at some guy but if I say what's on my mind, it's probably not going to be good.

Trevor Bayne

Mad's Quotes #95954
#42. Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it ... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.

James Lovelock

Mad's Quotes #95968
#43. Dammit, woman! You're scent, your stupid bloody delicious scent lingering in every crevice of my body and my wardrobe, driving me nearly mad. Do you know what it's like to want something so badly, to have it so close, and still feel that it's out of your reach? Out of control?

Delilah S. Dawson

Mad's Quotes #99011
#44. If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

Mad's Quotes #102590
#45. Mad at me. For Dad, parenting has become just like shooting one of his stupid insurance ads-some makeup to cover the blemishes, a flashy smile, and wham! He's got himself a regular picture-perfect family.

Holly Schindler

Mad's Quotes #108188
#46. I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.

John Lydon

Mad's Quotes #108440
#47. I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

Woody Allen

Mad's Quotes #114515
#48. Me sins are great, and I'll burn for dem. But if ye never believe anyt'in' else, know dat I loved ye more den anyt'in'. Ye were me sanctuary. Me solace in a world gone mad. I'd endure a thousand deat's to go back and ensure ye did not feel one moment of pain.

Nicole Jacquelyn

Mad's Quotes #117386
#49. [Suddenly letting slip the train of thought.] Do you know, the people down at the hotel think she's mad. PROFESSOR RUBEK. Indeed? And pray what do the people down at the hotel think of you and the bear-killer?

Henrik Ibsen

Mad's Quotes #120317
#50. Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare

Mad's Quotes #121014
#51. I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high intensity, sort of, athletic movements. I'm sure Cross Fit is going to be mad at me for not giving their definition of what Cross Fit is.

Parker Young

Mad's Quotes #123918
#52. There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

Tom Holt

Mad's Quotes #130212
#53. I recently published a new book. It's a Christian urban fantasy about mad science gone wrong. And then after I'd written that in a blurb I thought to myself - when does mad science ever go right?!

Greg Curtis

Mad's Quotes #130956
#54. Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.

Kenji Goto

Mad's Quotes #132672
#55. But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

Anthony Trollope

Mad's Quotes #133794
#56. Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

Everett Dirksen

Mad's Quotes #136685
#57. C'mon, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big. Buck Preston to CeeCee's neighbor, Miz Goodpepper, in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Beth Hoffman

Mad's Quotes #137119
#58. When I look at Tom, I thank God that he found me, too, that I was there to rescue him from that woman. She'd have driven him mad in the end, I really think that - she'd have ground him down, she'd have made him into something he's not.

Paula Hawkins

Mad's Quotes #142235
#59. You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

Connie Nielsen

Mad's Quotes #143458
#60. If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

Ice-T

Mad's Quotes #146508
#61. I haven't used my glamour since I was twelve years old," she whispered, gaze piercing as if it were very important to her that Scarlet understand this. "Not since I was old enough to control it. That's why the visions come to me. That's why I'm going mad.

Marissa Meyer

Mad's Quotes #149331
#62. I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole nightclub scene. Cocktail parties drive me mad. So I do my job and I stay away from the rest of it.

Johnny Carson

Mad's Quotes #154966
#63. It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects. That's why I get so mad about people who are down on vocal reverb. It's not a crutch, people, it's an aesthetic choice!

Kelly Hogan

Mad's Quotes #155834
#64. It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there.

Orlando Bloom

Mad's Quotes #156240
#65. There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millett's

Half Man Half Biscuit

Mad's Quotes #158862
#66. I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

Edward Bond

Mad's Quotes #162649
#67. Here he lies like something melting away. His mother's blood comes quaking howling brassing bawling blacking down his mad little veins.

Aeschylus

Mad's Quotes #164580
#68. ... There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible - magic to make the sanest man go mad.

Homer

Mad's Quotes #166229
#69. We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.

Paul Brown

Mad's Quotes #168328
#70. It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover

Mad's Quotes #168863
#71. I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

Dylan Moran

Mad's Quotes #169275
#72. If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and the skin tones. That's what I enjoy about acting. It can be very subtle, like that.

Michael Rooker

Mad's Quotes #177156
#73. Well, I'm against Bush. I'm definitely not pro-Bush. I think he's a maniac and a mad man, and I think he needs to go. As far as Kerry
you know, I think that it really came down to a choice of the lesser of two evils, and unfortunately Bush won.

Roger Miret

Mad's Quotes #178902
#74. LOVE is meant to make you Happy, not sad. What's the use of Love, if it makes you mad!-RVM

R.v.m.

Mad's Quotes #180218
#75. I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.

Jarvis Cocker

Mad's Quotes #181117
#76. I've had friends get mad at me for not posting what they think I should post on Instagram on behalf of them or our relation. I've had people question my "integrity" based off of something I didn't post on social media, the list goes on. It's mind boggling.

Aeriel Miranda

Mad's Quotes #184158
#77. DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.

Maurice Wilkins

Mad's Quotes #185746
#78. Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?

John Bunyan

Mad's Quotes #188734
#79. There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.

Corrie Ten Boom

Mad's Quotes #191575
#80. I need to know how you did it it.
I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, witch panache and style. That's how I did it.
(Shadow & Mad Sweeney)

Neil Gaiman

Mad's Quotes #191800
#81. It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Mad's Quotes #192979
#82. It's not the pain that's inflicted on us by others that destroys us. It's the pain we let inside our hearts that does that. Don't let the human's anger become yours. It can drive you mad if you do. (M'Adoc)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Mad's Quotes #198353
#83. If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Mad's Quotes #198957
#84. The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Elias Canetti

Mad's Quotes #199323
#85. I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.

Joseph Sobran

Mad's Quotes #199390
#86. If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?

Troy Glaus

Mad's Quotes #202535
#87. The world's gone mad: joining it is the only solution.

Brandon Sanderson

Mad's Quotes #203418
#88. I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

Britt Daniel

Mad's Quotes #205119
#89. Elvi blinked in puzzlement as Murtry left. "Is he mad at me?" "Sweetie," Amos said, clapping her on the back, "that just means you're not an asshole.

James S.A. Corey

Mad's Quotes #211714
#90. Three dispositions adverse to Heaven's still, - Incontinence, malice, and mad brutishness.

Dante Alighieri

Mad's Quotes #214790
#91. Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Mad's Quotes #216606
#92. To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God's passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mad's Quotes #217708
#93. Hillary Clinton will travel to Vietnam with the president this Friday. It's a fact that at the height of the war in 1971, she tried to enlist in the Marines, but they turned her down. Apparently we weren't that mad at the Viet Cong.

Argus Hamilton

Mad's Quotes #223482
#94. She's upset."
"Screaming upset? or crying upset?"
"Does it matter?"
"Yes. There's a difference between being mad at a guy and being a teary mess over him. For example: Deanna is mad and can plot your destruction; I was a teary mess and could barely crawl out of bed every day.

Sylvia Day

Mad's Quotes #225586
#95. Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Colin Powell

Mad's Quotes #226643
#96. It has to be mad, if it's Love. If it isn't, it's just a fluke of nature

D.N. Joshi

Mad's Quotes #227277
#97. Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.

Jessica Mitford

Mad's Quotes #227652
#98. Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

Rich Sommer

Mad's Quotes #232358
#99. My grandson is mad at me. He's mad at me because I squandered his college fund on Spanx. It's a lot, but there's a lot going on here.

Joan Rivers

Mad's Quotes #241589
#100. The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

Jim Butcher

Mad's Quotes #242528

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