“Calumny is only the noise of madmen.”
Diogenes
“It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.”
Mary Stewart
“Calumnies are answered best with silence”
Ben Jonson
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.”
William Shakespeare
“Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.”
“Briefly leaving behind the molars and malocclusions to enter Yoknapatawpha County, the mythical realm of madmen and malingerers, drifters and grifters, funeral parties and lynch mobs.”
Samuel G. Freedman
“Materialists and madmen never have doubts.”
G. K. Chesterton