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Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.
Alison Larkin
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
H. L. Mencken
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
Henry David Thoreau
Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
Prince Of Wales Charles
Thou strange piece of wild nature!
Colley Cibber
The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.
Julian Clary
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
Rose Macaulay
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Edward George BulwerLytton
So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
Laurence Sterne
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
Johann von Goethe