Chapman

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
-Julius Caesar

I have so often seen how people come by the name of genius; in the same way, that is, as certain insects come by the name of millipede — not because they have that number of feet, but because most people won’t count up to fourteen.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The Lone Ranger’s creed, devised by creator Fran Striker:

I believe:

• That to have a friend, a man must be one.
• That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.
• That God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself.
• In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.
• That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.
• That “this government of the people, by the people, and for the people” shall live always.
• That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.
• That sooner or later … somewhere … somehow … we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.
• That all things change but truth, and that truth alone lives on forever.
• In my Creator, my country, my fellow man

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
-Alexis de Tocqueville

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the path to godliness.
-Kant

Bring me into the company of those who seek the truth, and deliver me from those who have found it. The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
-Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
-Albert Einstein

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is free to combat it.
-Thomas Jefferson

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
-Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1989

“My country, right or wrong” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying “My mother, drunk or sober.”
-G.K. Chesterton, “The Defendant”

As Hillel famously put it: “What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah: The rest is commentary. Now go and study.”
The fewer dogmas, the fewer disputes; the fewer disputes, the fewer miseries: if this is not true, then I’m wrong.
-Voltaire, A Treatise on Toleration

The duty of all things is to give joy; if they do not give joy they are either useless or harmful.
-Jorge Luis Borges

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

All of the buildings, all of those cars were once just a dream in somebody’s head.
-Peter Gabriel

Paralian
n. one who lives near the sea

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
-Boethius

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
-Dion Boucicault

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
-Woodrow Wilson

I and my kind do not convince by argument; we convince by our presence.
-Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you’ve never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
-Joseph Campbell

Live as one already dead.
-Japanese saying

In the 1930s also, persons of good intentions accused this flamethrower Winston Churchill of being the principal danger towards world peace. In a sense, these people were correct. Churchill, in opposing Nazism, menaced world peace, a peace of which the terms had been defined by Hitler. The rejection of tyranny and the resistance to totalitarianism have always been a grave menace to world peace.
-Jean Renaud

Some die with a name, some die nameless.
-Wyclef Jean - Gone till November

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
-Emerson

For every minute you spend angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Emerson

He who has a why to live for can bear any how.
-Nietzsche

Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested.
-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
-William Shakespeare

The life that does no more than maintain itself, denies itself.
-Nelson Algren

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

A man should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein

To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
-W.H. Auden, Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier

Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
-Lady Caroline Lamb, on Lord Byron

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
-Colette

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
-John Keats

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
-Unknown

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
-Samuel Butler

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked throughout the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
-Viktor Frankl

Life consists in what a man is thinking all day.
-Emerson

During US President Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the Whitehouse in Washington, D.C., 1901-09, he was noted for his “point-to-point walks”, which were athletic like parkour, and conducted in as straight line as possible, over obstacles and including swimming where necessary.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour

We stand before the world, not in it.
-Rilke