Quotes About Adventure

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The scene he witnessed there in the twilight depths of the African jungle was burned forever into the Englishman's brain.

It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian.

Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a naked man to drag a shrieking, clawing man-eater forth from a window by the tail to save a strange white girl, was indeed the last word in heroism.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you don't think it's lonesome wandering all by yourself through savage, unknown Pellucidar, why, just try it, and you will not wonder that I was glad of the company of this first dog

Tarzan was wishing that they might walk on thus forever. If the girl were only a man they might. He longed for a friend who loved the same wild life that he loved. He had learned to crave companionship, but it was his misfortune that most of the men he knew preferred immaculate linen and their clubs to nakedness and the jungle. It was, of course, difficult to understand, yet it was very evident that they did.

She told me that she was called Dian the Beautiful, and that she belonged to the tribe of Amoz, which dwells in the cliffs above the Darel Az, or shallow sea.

THE JOHN CARTER OF MARS COLLECTION ..................

THREE days crawled slowly out of the east and followed one another across the steaming jungle and over the edge of the world beyond.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

sea, and was killed. The sea into which he fell was called the Aegean ever after.

who kindled in each one the desire not to be left behind nursing a life without peril by his mother's side, but even at the price of death to drink with his comrades the peerless elixir of valor. They

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

East of the sun and west of the moon.

She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.

They journeyed far and the white bear said, Are you afraid? No, she replied. I am not afraid.

Where is it? I asked, willing him to tell me. He laughed suddenly, and I could hear the full-throated, grating sound of the white bear's laughter in it. East of the sun and west of the moon, he said.

I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.