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Quotes About Adventure

In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]
~ George Herbert
You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!
~ Gideon Defoe
A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
So we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches.
~ Glenn Beck
Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?
~ Groucho Marx
My old man said, 'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam.
~ Marie Lloyd
Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.
~ Mark Twain
I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.
~ Mark Twain
We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.
~ Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is never out of range of surprises!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It?s not me to sleep with loads of men, but I do believe in having different experiences. At the end of the day, the nicest thing is the old-fashioned one-on-one.
~ Mia Kirshner
the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.
~ Mitch Albom
A fearless man thrives on far horizons.
~ Napoleon Hill
Seminaked men!" Jacky trilled. "With swords," Kat purred. "It is a romance novel!
~ P. C. Cast
My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
~ Pliny the Elder
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
~ Oliver Stone