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.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
Henry Miller
17.
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
Jacobo Timerman
18.
I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.
David Bowie
21.
Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?
Mark Hanna
22.
Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.
Fritz Leiber
23.
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
Vasily Grossman
25.
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
Jean Cocteau
26.
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
Lord Chesterfield
29.
I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
Milan Kundera
31.
Someone like myself,
who claimed to be a real madman,
living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
Salvador Dali
32.
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
Andre Maurois
33.
I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.
Clay Walker
34.
Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
Herman Melville
36.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson
38.
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
Terry Pratchett
39.
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
40.
Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
Anne Rice
41.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
Irving Stone
43.
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
J. D. Salinger
44.
Only a madman would give good for evil
Euripides
46.
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
48.
I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.
Lisa Kleypas