Quotes About Adventure

Come all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me And never leave your happy homes to sail the raging sea.

They made him [Stephen] a little canvas boat, and it was thought that if he were obliged to wear two sea-elephant's bladders, blown up and attached to his person, he could not come to harm in such a placid sea; but after an unfortunate experience in which he became involved in his umbrella and it was found that the bladders buoyed up his meagre hams alone, so that only the presence of Babbington's Newfoundland preserved him, he was forbidden to go unaccompanied.

I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...

Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian

certainly. Would

There is nothing that interests me more than travel, I declare; and if I had had my health, I should have been a great traveller, a second–a second– St Paul? No, no. A second Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

I certainly shall, sir. Anything for a quiet life is my motto.' 'And yet you were in a privateer.' 'Yes, sir. I was running away from a young woman: the same as when I left the Charleston horse-leech.

Patrick O'Brian

almighty,' said Killick. 'Stephen, I am going to take a turn,' said Jack, withdrawing from the table in a sly undulatory motion and darting through the door with hunched shoulders. 'Why they call this a crack frigate,' he said, swilling down a glass of water in his sleeping-cabin, 'I cannot for the life of me imagine: not a drop of coffee among two hundred and sixty men.

Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian

Horta de Sant Joan

Patrick O'Brian

But there is nothing so tedious as sitting by when two old shipmates are calling out, "Do you remember the three days' blow in the Mona Passage? – Do you remember Wilkins and his timenoguy? – What has happened to old Blodge?

Now, Polychrests,' he said, 'now we are going to crack on until she groans again. Stuns'ls aloft and alow, royals, and, damn me, royal stuns'ls and skys'ls if she'll bear 'em. The sooner we're there, the sooner we're home. Topmen, upperyardmen, are you ready?' 'Ready, aye ready, sir.' A comfortable, good body of sound – relief, thankfulness? 'Then at the word, up you go. Lay aloft!

Patrick Skene Catling

Patrick Skene Catling

I am compelled into this country.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.

Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.