Quotes About Adventure

C'était à Mégara, faubourg de Carthage, dans les jardins d'Hamilcar.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

Without moving, you walk through lands you imagine you can see, and your thoughts, weaving in and out of the story, delight in the details or follow the outlines of the adventures. You merge with the character; you think you're the one whose heart is beating so hard within the clothes he's wearing.

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses.

No se piensa en nada; las horas pasan. Uno se pasea inmovil por paises que cree ver, y su pensamiento, enlazandose a la ficcion, se recrea en los detalles o sigue el hilo de las aventuras. Se identifica con los personajes; parece que somos nosotros mismos los que participamos bajo sus pieles.

Audaces fortuna juvat [« La fortune sourit aux audacieux »].

BALLOONS – With balloons we will end up going to the moon. We shan't be able to navigate them any time soon.

De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace ! »

No se piensa en nada –continuaba él–, las horas pasan. Uno recorre sin moverse países que cree estar viendo, y el pensamiento, siguiendo a la ficción, se recrea en los detalles o sigue el hilo de las aventuras. Se identifica con los personajes y parece que es uno mismo quien palpita bajo sus ropas.

I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

His life had gone by without adventures, without passions, almost without hopes. The facility of dreaming, planted in every man, had never blossomed in the narrow bed of his ambitions.

Meetings constitute the charm of travelling. Who does not know the joy of coming, five hundred leagues from one's native land, upon a Parisian, a college friend, or a neighbour in the country? Who has not spent a night, unable to sleep, in the little jingling stage-coach of countries where steam is still unknown, beside a strange young woman, half seen by the gleam of the lantern when she clambered into the carriage at the door of a white house in a little town?

I have tried travel. The loneliness which one feels in strange places terrified me.

Le voyage est une espèce de porte par où l'on sort de la réalité connue pour pénétrer dans une réalité inexplorée qui semble un rêve.

Le tourisme, se ramène fondamentalement au loisir d'aller voir ce qui est devenu banal.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken-

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken (- Robert Frost-)

When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away

everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Sé un héroe «Un héroe es un hombre que teme salir corriendo.» Proverbio inglés

Find Soul Mates The next step is to find some soul mates to go on your adventure—think Bilbo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring. However, people love the notion of the sole innovator: Thomas Edison (lightbulb), Steve Jobs (Macintosh), Henry Ford (Model T), Anita Roddick (The Body Shop), and Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines). It's wrong.