Mad Men Quotes

• It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Mad, Episodes

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.

  Alan Gottlieb

  Country, Children, Gun

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• A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

  Anthony the Great

  Religious, Time, Crazy

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• The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

  Dennis Hopper

  Movie, Men, Mad

  "Fictional character: Photojournalist". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Fun, Believe, Population Problem

  "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1966.

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• Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Crazy, Men

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 2, ch. 12

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• They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

  Khalil Gibran

  Money, Thinking, Mad

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Easter

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.289, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.

  Jessica Pare

  Song, Believe, Men

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• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  Zosia Mamet

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love whiskey, and I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men,' so anything that Don Draper does, I like to do. But I want Don Draper to get back to where he was in the first season. I like him married and gallivanting around.

  Charles Kelley

  Men, Mad, Want

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• A mad man sees what he sees.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Mad

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• I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew. I knew this would happen. This is what always happens. Forget your faith in me. I took you with me because I was vain. Because I wanted to be adored. Look at you. Glorious Pond, the girl who waited for me. I’m not a hero. I really am just a mad man in a box. And it’s time we saw each other as we really are. Amy Williams, it’s time to stop waiting.

  Steven Moffat

  Girl, Hero, Men

  "Doctor Who Recap: 'The God Complex'" by Jason Cranford Teague, www.wired.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!

  Rumi

  Love, Men, Mad

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• Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

  Matt Smith

  Men, Mad, Important

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• Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

  January Jones

  Men, Mad, Tvs

  "January Jones Interview: "There's nothing fun about being sweet"". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I've been watching Mad Men since day one.

  Gayle King

  Men, Mad

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• I ask you, if a mad man came in and abducted your child and I said to you I can bring your child homedoes it matter how I bring them home?

  Sam Childers

  Children, Home, Men

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• Maybe...in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe...maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it's a little like life. I mean it's powerful going down and that doesn't even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.

  Bette Greene

  Powerful, Coffee, Mean

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• One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere outside of you. And you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize it's just gone.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Thinking, One Day, Gone

  "Mad Men: Meditations in an Emergency". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Mad, Naked

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.118, Heinemann

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• And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.

  Jessica Pare

  Men, Mad, Family And Friends

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• I constantly remind myself that resting takes confidence. Anyone can train like a mad man but to embrace rest and to allow all the hard training to come out takes mental strength.

  Ryan Hall

  Men, Mad, Training

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• For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?

  Sam Childers

  Family, Sister, Brother

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