Charlton Ogburn

“Circumstances are seldom right… You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments”. –Charlton Ogburn

Jack London

“I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot… The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time”. –Jack London

Ethan Allen

“It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy”. –Ethan Allen

Charles Lindbergh

“I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve”. –Charles Lindbergh

J.G. Stedman

“I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization”. –J.G. Stedman

Duke Kahanamoku

“Don’t talk — keep it in your heart”. –Duke Kahanamoku

Democritus

“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich”. –Democritus

Walter Raleigh

“Whosoever, in writing modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth”. –Walter Raleigh

Arthur C. Clarke

“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now”. –Arthur C. Clarke

Francis Galton

“One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigor of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands”. –Francis Galton

Christopher Columbus

“Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier”. –Christopher Columbus

Marco Polo

“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings; the whole of the Christians — and throw in the Saracens to boot — they would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world”. –Marco Polo

Hunter S. Thompson

“I’ve always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it’s a bit like fucking — which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don’t do much giggling”. –Hunter S. Thompson

Peter Kropotkin

“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society”. –Peter Kropotkin

Giacomo Casanova

“As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women, as a general rule, dupe each other”. –Giacomo Casanova

Thor Heyerdahl

“In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds”. –Thor Heyerdahl