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.
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
Vasily Grossman
22.
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
Jean Cocteau
24.
Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?
Mark Hanna
25.
Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.
Fritz Leiber
27.
Someone like myself,
who claimed to be a real madman,
living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
Salvador Dali
28.
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
Lord Chesterfield
31.
I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
Milan Kundera
32.
Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
Herman Melville
34.
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
Andre Maurois
35.
I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.
Clay Walker
37.
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
38.
I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.
Lisa Kleypas
41.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
Horace
42.
The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?
Lauren Bacall
43.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson
45.
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
Terry Pratchett
46.
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
47.
Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
Anne Rice
48.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
Irving Stone
50.
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
J. D. Salinger