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
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons. — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“These were madmen, Simon realized, and that was the direst problem of the world: that madmen should be strong and unafraid, so… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That’s why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that’s why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“We could watch the madmen, on clement days, sauntering and skipping among the trim gravel walks and pleasantly planted lawns; happy collaborationists… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental… — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of… — Nelson Rodrigues Copy Share Image
... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick… — Harry Yoxall Copy Share Image
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage. — Clay Walker Copy Share Image
You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image