Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer r...eason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for t...he most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lights... are being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I'll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--l...et such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grandpa: Penny, why don't you write a play about ism-mania? Penny: Ism-mania?... Grandpa: Yeah, sure. You know, communism, fascism, voodooism. Everybody's got an ism these days. Penny: It sounds like an itch or something. Grandpa: It's just as catching. When things go a little bad these days, you go out and get yourself an ism and you're in business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,... They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied--not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »