Top 1200 Mad Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.

If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow men, there would be no wars, contentions, and strife among the children of men. And that there is such, is due to an indifference by men to heed the admonitions and teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Hollywood has realised that we do have actors and are not just mad about song and dance.

The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough.

When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.

I'm an Apple-mad person. The iPad is now such a big part of my life.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.

Inside the mind of 'America's Mad Genius' is not necessarily a place you want to visit.

The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.

Oh, goodie! I get to make the redheaded goddess mad! (Simi)

I think that knowing where you're going is important, and it's not like, when Robert says that, it's not like we know what every episode of the next five, four, five, six seasons of the show is going to be. I think Matt Weiner knew how Mad Men was going to end. Vince Gilligan knew how Breaking Bad was going to end. Marc Cherry knew how Desperate Housewives was going to end. Along the way, the process of crafting those stories ... You don't know what the road, what twists and turns that road is going to take to ultimately get you there.

I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.

Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.

I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear than the men have. At least, more women than men asked to go up with me. And when I took them up, they seemed to enjoy it.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home.

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business.

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

A culture that does not teach prayer soon runs mad with desire.

Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.

Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away of moral opprobrium from our memory of Hitler. In another fifty years we may well find ourselves weighed down by a second monstrous dream of pure grandeur to match that of the Emperor. Two men who dared. Two men who were adored. Two men who led with brilliance. Two men who administered fairly and efficiently. Two men who were modest in their own needs but surrounded by lesser beings who profited from their situation and came between the Hero and the people.

I have a theory about American men -- I think they think women are boys who don't know how to throw a ball very well. American women are forced into the role of being men without penises, of being men who haven't quite been able to make it. If women don't want to be pussycats, then they get forced into the role of being almost as good as men. Which is lousy.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

I hold Mad Season very fondly to my heart, and there's a lot of sadness in that, too.

Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.

Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't go into extremes. Some women can get very aggressive towards men, but we need men and love men, so keeping the right balance is the most important thing.

I'm not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.

What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

There was a sort of chain in school. I wasn't, like, mad at the top, but I wasn't right at the bottom, either.

Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles that those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote against them, you may soon yourself have no vote at all.

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

I think people get mad because I make more direct records.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

If you think it's necessary to judge me by my past, don't get mad when I put you there.

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and-above all- apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.

I had a dream that all the babies prevented by the pill showed up. They were mad.

Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.

First, it was a big deal for girls to dress more like guys. Then it was a big deal for straight men to be metereosexuals and care about their appearance in the way that a gay man would. Now we have to take it a step further - men should be able to not wear men's clothes if they don't want to.

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.