Quotes About Adventure

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

A man who limits his interests limits his life.

Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

I like a boyish quality in a man, somebody who is still adventurous. But I have no rules. I do not care - within reason - about your chronological age. I care whether you have passion in your life.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

I love Nashville. I've been here so many times... oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!

For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.

The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.