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Quotes About Adventure

When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party; I've lived the life of ten men. I lived all my dreams and more.
~ Robbin Crosby
Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.
~ William Shakespeare
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.
~ Dana Delany
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
~ Rudyard Kipling
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
~ Hafez
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.
~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.
~ Jimmy Buffett
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
~ John Buchan
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
~ Charles Bukowski
In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.
~ Frank Smythe
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
~ Giacomo Casanova
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.
~ Maurice Herzog
Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
~ Myrtle Reed
Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street
~ Nat Young
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
~ Rachel Hunter
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
~ Richard Bach
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
~ Gene Tierney
I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.
~ Big Jim Sullivan
He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?
~ Marian Keyes
Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.
~ Paul Theroux
The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
~ Ovid