A Quote by Alexander Pope

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Alexander Pope

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Mad Madmen Run Saint Worst

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Alexander Pope
English - Poet
May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744

If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.

John Locke

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

Bram Stoker

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

Maeve Binchy

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

John Dryden

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

John Dryden

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

C. S. Lewis

Every time I feel mad or something, I run somewhere. It gets my frustrations away. I run and run and run.

Pedro Martinez

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

Rafael Sabatini

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Denis Diderot

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.