Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
People call me crazy and a madman. Even 'Tasmanian Devil.' I'd rather be called the 'Tasmanian Angel.' — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States. — Mick Jagger 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
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
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
You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect,… — Neal Stephenson 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
Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
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
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
“every night, when he didn't want to be alone, or to age or die, with that set expression he assumed which she… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman Nero, two… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery,… — R. D. Laing 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
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make… — Plato Copy Share Image
“In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has… — Marilynne Robinson 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
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
