Mark Twain Insane Quotations

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane...

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials