Madmen famous quotes

I am not a madman or a nut.
-- Abdul Qadeer Khan

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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
-- Ajahn Chah

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The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.
-- Aleksandr Karelin

#Real #Drug #Madmen

History is the autobiography of a madman.
-- Alexander Herzen

#Madmen #Autobiography

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
-- Alexandre Dumas

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There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
-- Andre Maurois

#Men #Brilliant #Madmen

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
-- Anne Rice

#Art #Shock #Madmen

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
-- Diogenes

#Noise #Calumny #Madmen

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Fool #Madmen #Mediums

The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.
-- Frederic Henry Hedge

#Dreamer #Action #Madmen

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Mistake #Peaceful #Madmen

He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.
-- Henri Michaux

#Voiceless #Madmen

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
-- Henry Miller

#World #Ghost #Madmen

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
-- Horace

#Poet #Madmen

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
-- Irving Stone

#Mad #Madmen #Pleasant

We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
-- Jacobo Timerman

#War #Madmen

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#World #Madness #Madmen

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Reputation #Crank #Madmen

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .
-- Marcus Aurelius

#Madmen #Pursue #Impossibility

Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?
-- Mark Hanna

#Government #Realizing #Madmen

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Wise #Madmen #Miscellaneous

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
-- Milan Kundera

#Lying #Want #Madmen

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
-- Paolo Veronese

#Use #Poet #Madmen

Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.
-- Pseudonymous Bosch

#Novelists #Hungry #Madmen

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.
-- Robert Aickman

#Difficult #Madmen #Sane

Only the madman is absolutely sure.
-- Robert Anton Wilson

#Inspirational #Skepticism #Madmen

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
-- Samuel Richardson

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The madman is a dreamer awake
-- Sigmund Freud

#Dreamer #Awake #Madmen

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
-- Vasily Grossman

#Endurance #Characteristics #Madmen

The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.
-- Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

#Mad #Sanity #Madmen

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.
-- Marguerite de Navarre

#Lovers #Helping #Madmen

I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.
-- Clay Walker

#Horse #Golf #Madmen

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.
-- Fritz Leiber

#Equal #Madmen #Drunkards

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

#Feel Better #Roles #Madmen