2.
There is
A madman inside of you
Who is always running for office
Hafez
4.
When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.
Robert Aickman
9.
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
Ajahn Chah
10.
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
Paolo Veronese
13.
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
Edgar Allan Poe
14.
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.
Pseudonymous Bosch
15.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France
16.
I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.
David Bowie
18.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
Henry Miller
19.
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
Jacobo Timerman
20.
Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?
Mark Hanna
21.
Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.
Fritz Leiber
22.
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
Vasily Grossman
24.
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
Jean Cocteau
28.
I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
Milan Kundera
30.
Someone like myself,
who claimed to be a real madman,
living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
Salvador Dali
31.
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
Lord Chesterfield
32.
I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.
Clay Walker
33.
Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
Herman Melville
35.
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
Andre Maurois
36.
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
37.
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
Terry Pratchett
39.
Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
Anne Rice
40.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
Irving Stone
41.
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
J. D. Salinger
42.
Only a madman would give good for evil
Euripides
45.
You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.
Noam Chomsky
46.
I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.
Lisa Kleypas
49.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
Horace
50.
The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?
Lauren Bacall