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History is the autobiography of a madman.
— Alexander Herzen
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Patches of stained red grass. Rotting baby limbs at dusk. The sound of cicadas and laughter; picnics with madmen by the black lake at noon.
— Andrew Gallacher
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
— Rafael Sabatini
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
— Vince Lombardi
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
— John Dryden
Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
— Mark Lawrence
A strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable.
— R. Scott Bakker
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
— Miguel De Cervantes
True dreamers are both geniuses and madmen. Most lands can tolerate only a few, and those die young.
— N.K. Jemisin
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
— Marcel Duchamp
I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.
— W. H. Auden
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
— Seneca The Younger
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Only barbarians and madmen take pleasure in combat. Whoever
— Patrick Rothfuss
Every madman considers everyone else a madman.
— Publilius Syrus
Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We believed ourselves indestructable ... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
— Jacobo Timerman
Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.
— Fritz Leiber
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
— Vasily Grossman
It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.
— Seneca The Younger
Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
— William Shakespeare
There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know.
Dryden, The Spanish Friar II, i — Gerald Durrell
Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.
— George W. Bush
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
— Jessica Lange
The dreamer is a madman quiescent,the madman is a dreamer in action. — Frederic Henry Hedge
He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.
— Henri Michaux
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
— Ajahn Chah
Only criminals and madmen walk into Central Park after midnight...or, occasionally, an actor. (Dark City Lights)
— Jane Dentinger
Madmen and fools feel no fear. Heroes fear and face the danger anyway.
— Joe Abercrombie
God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.
— Marguerite De Navarre
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
— Diogenes
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
— Andre Maurois
The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.
— Marilyn Manson
What Richard Selzer, M.D. once wrote of surgery is true of therapy: only human love keeps this from being the act of two madmen.
— Thomas Lewis
Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
— Cynthia Ozick
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
— Alexander Pope
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
— Terry Pratchett
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You don't appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.
— Luigi Pirandello
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded ...
— Edgar Allan Poe
Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall
— Anonymous
Only a madman would give good for evil
— Euripides
Sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen.
— Robin Hobb
The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.
— Aleksandr Karelin
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
— Benjamin Whichcote
Such stuff as madmen tongue.
— William Shakespeare
My mother taught me long ago that only madmen fight wars they cannot win.
— George R R Martin
Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
— Herman Melville
We've all become god's madmen, all of us.
— Bram Stoker
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
— Denis Diderot
He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
— Alexandre Dumas
This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
— William Shakespeare
Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ...
— Salvador Dali
We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.
— Michael Grant
I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power.
— Bram Stoker
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
— Paolo Veronese
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
— Emile M. Cioran
The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?
— Lauren Bacall
A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
— George Santayana
When one lives among madmen, one should train as a maniac.
— Alexandre Dumas
Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen,
— Aldous Huxley
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .
— Marcus Aurelius
I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.
— Clay Walker
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.
— Carl Sagan
Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.
— George Singleton
The wind, my friends, only speaks to madmen - and I heard it call my name.
— Pierdomenico Baccalario