Quotes About Adventure

And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Bedelia never meant to lead a pack of dogs on a wild-goose chase. She never meant to steal something and then sell it. She never meant to make someone look bad (very bad) or lead a parade astray or even stomp on a piece of perfectly delicious cherry pie. But all that and more actually happened.

Amelia Bedelia and Alice followed

As she wanders along the river like this, one hand on her hip and the other clutching a mark to defray her expenses, she is in well-known country.

We learn by doing, and each new experience is part answer and part question.

From the foot, Hercules.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks

Quite. Well., I haven't met the lady myself, but before she came we just had nice quiet larcenies, dopings, muggings, and the like. But since her arrival, it's been shootings, abductions, and now murders--the lot. I suppose you wouldn't like to take her back to London with you and give us all a rest?

He left not knowing where he was going, he got there not knowing where he was, and he came back not knowing where he had been. But history books will point out Columbus as the person who made the Americas available for exploitation. I guess I can make the same kind of ridiculous claim.

Había cometido la osadía de creer que no podría pasarme nada: después de todo, iba inmersa en un poema.

The Plane!, The Plane!

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I hadn't been hanging around a knight errant for three years without learning that impossible things can happen, if you're willing to throw common sense in the air and try .

With Weasel and Arisa at his side, anything was possible. Anything.

pointing towards the doorway.

Get bored is not allowed! -Eloise Age 6