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Quotes About Adventure

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.
~ Townsend Whelen
As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.
~ Wally Schirra
Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.
~ William Henry Irwin
Ships are but boards, sailors but men.
~ William Shakespeare
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
~ Herman Melville
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
~ Jack Kerouac
I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
A big part of dating for men is the huntthe chase.
~ Jesse Palmer
Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.
~ Johnny Cash
When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.
~ Kate Bush
I have a soft spot for musicians. If a man could ride this roller coaster with me and come out alive, then I guess we'd deserve each other's company.
~ Katy Perry
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.
~ Kit Williams
The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.
~ Clive James
Kids, man. They'll be the ones to take mountain biking to the next level for us. You just watch
~ Gary Fisher
There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire
~ Nicholas Evans
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space
~ Paul Theroux
No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.
~ Art Buchwald
A crossbow?" Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans," the man said.
~ Brandon Mull
Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.
~ Mandell Creighton