Saying 25, Page 6
From Apophthegmata Patrum
“Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.”
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967)
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Robertson Davies 282
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“I'm not mad that you got mad when I got mad when you said I should go drop dead.”
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“The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 5.