The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.


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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't sh...
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
FRANCES FARMER
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After t...
FRANCES FARMER
It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had rea...
FRANCES FARMER
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told ...
FRANCES FARMER
I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
FRANCES FARMER
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
FRANCES FARMER
I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my ha...
FRANCES FARMER
But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feelin...
FRANCES FARMER
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
FRANCES FARMER
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love tha...
FRANCES FARMER
I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautif...
FRANCES FARMER
I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network sch...
FRANCES CONROY
'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's...
FRANCES CONROY
I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
FRANCES CONROY
Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
FRANCES CONROY
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
FRANCES CONROY
I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days...
FRANCES CONROY
It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what yo...
FRANCES CONROY
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your ...
FRANCES CONROY
If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private ...
FRANCES CONROY
It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don&#...
FRANCES CONROY
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
FRANCES BURNEY
There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect...
FRANCES BURNEY
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history ...
FRANCES BURNEY
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't a...
FRANCES BURNEY
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
FRANCES BURNEY
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one fea...
FRANCES BURNEY
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I r...
FRANCES BURNEY
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment...
FRANCES BURNEY
I can swear like a fishwife.
FRANCES BAY
I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered m...
FRANCES BAY
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; an...
FRANCES WRIGHT
Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back ag...
FRANCES RODMAN
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that ha...
FRANCES FARMER
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave tow...
FRANCES RODMAN
After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought...
FRANCES MCDORMAND
It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and if you find th...
FRANCES PARTRIDGE
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
FRANCES CORNFORD
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true frie...
FRANCES FARMER
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sur...
FRANCES BURNETT
It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps ...
FRANCES O'GRADY
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
FRANCES WRIGHT
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of t...
FRANCES WRIGHT
I am desperately seeking love, but also desperately avoiding it
FRANCES IVY
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at si...
FRANCES WRIGHT