Quotes About Adventure

We're young men; we're not ready to die.

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.