madnesses

• “Softly throbbing, voice and strings arose on sensuous crests of song, died away to whisperings and caresses, drifted through love-dusks and twilights, or swelled again to love-cries barbarically imperious in which were woven plaintive calls and madnesses of invitation and promise.”

  CHAPTER III

• “Holdsworthy was an enthusiast over flowers, and a half lunatic over raising prize poultry; and these engrossing madnesses were a source of perpetual joy to Daylight, who looked on in tolerant good humor.”

  Chapter I

• “He had known enchantments and madnesses before, and had torn himself away.”

  CHAPTER XVII

• “Fiscal panic does not merely risk the recovery, it ends with half-rebuilt schools being abandoned, and myriad other madnesses.”

  The Guardian: Labour and the deficit: Stumbling towards a strategy | Editorial

• “One of the illusions that I have been labouring under is that here in Blighty we are largely untouched by the worst madnesses affecting computing and the Internet in the US - things like software patents, deranged punishments for copyright infringement etc.”

  Another Little Gift from Tony "The Poodle" Blair

• “During the administration of Richelieu we observe some consistency of design and some nerve in execution; but in truth they are uncommonly short epochs of wisdom in so long a chronicle of madnesses.”

  Voltaire

• “It is not precisely that the formation of man is the final cause of our madnesses and follies, for a final cause is universal, and invariable in every age and place; but the horrors and absurdities of the human race are not at all the less included in the eternal order of things.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “Increasingly, I think the East may save Europe from its current madnesses...”

  The Influence Of President Klaus

• “There is a tradition or story, which has somehow crept about the world, that Dionysus was robbed of his wits by his stepmother Here, and that out of revenge he inspires Bacchic furies and dancing madnesses in others; for which reason he gave men wine.”

  Laws

• “I hope, somehow, they a laugh and a tasty treat and a moment of joy yesterday, and today, and something good can come out of the madnesses of war.”

  Archive 2006-07-01

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