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Quotes About Adventure

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
~ Buffalo Bill
I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.
~ Evel Knievel
God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.
~ Pope Pius XII
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
~ James Dickey
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
~ Herodotus
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
~ Walter Scott
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
~ William Cowper
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
~ Socrates
I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.
~ James Cook
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
~ Paul Gauguin
It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.
~ W. C. Fields
Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.
~ Dorothy Wordsworth
I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man
~ Robert Ripley
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.
~ Buzz Aldrin
The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.
~ Hermann Oberth
What men in all the world have shown such daring?
~ Hernando Cortes
Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.
~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.
~ Annie Smith Peck
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
~ William Wordsworth
A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.
~ Juan Manuel Fangio
Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.
~ Kevin Smith
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
~ Charles Dickens