WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/76019/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Ella Wheeler Wilcox</b></a></p><blockquote>“He is mad as a hare, poor fellow,<br> And should be in chains” you say,<br>I haven’t a doubt of your statement,<br> But who isn’t mad, I pray?<br>Why, the world is a great asylum,<br> And the people are all insane,<br>Gone daft with pleasure or folly,<br> Or crazed with passion and pain.</blockquote><p><b>Ella Wheeler Wilcox</b> (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist<br>Poem (1876), “All Mad,” st. 1, <i>Maurine and Other Poems</i></p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/76019/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=folly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folly</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=foolishness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foolishness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humancondition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humancondition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=insanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insanity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=madness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>madness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pain</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=passion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>passion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pleasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pleasure</span></a></p>