A Quote by Samuel Richardson

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

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
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August 19, 1689 - July 4, 1761

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Aldous Huxley

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Salvador Dali

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Publilius Syrus

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

Ajahn Chah

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

Aleksandr Karelin

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

Shawn Crahan

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Charles Bukowski

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

Robbie Coltrane

The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.

Frederic Henry Hedge

So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow... Save details for the judge.

Betty Sue Flowers

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

Samuel Johnson

Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.

Miguel de Cervantes

Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.' The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.

Steven Moffat

Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

Eva Brann

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

Only a madman would give good for evil

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