A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“What would life be like if they weren’t chasing madmen? Boring and staid, definitely.” — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words. — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no… — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too.… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
Before Bin Laden did everything but advertise. Yet he had to blow up the Twin Towers just to get the attention of… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to… — Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
And when you say the policies are what caused this war - American policies - that's not to say that they're wrong.… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
