Quotes About Adventure

edgar rice burroughs

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

Hairy and the Maidens.

He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great adversary suffices and who can dispense with success. Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

You'll laugh at me, of course"—Geoffrey smiled a hasty and unconvincing negative—"but in the long run it is the people who dream of being men of action who are the men of action. Admittedly Don Quixote made a fool of himself with the windmills, but when all's said and done, there probably were giants about.

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Over hill, over dale, we have hit the dusty trailAnd those caissons go rolling along.

flourishing comes from the experience of the new: new situations, new problems, new insights, and new ideas to develop and share.

The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide, But forth vnto the darksome hole he went, And looked in:his glistring armor made A litle glooming light, much like a shade

How over that same door was likewise writ,Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold.

A gentle knight was pricking on the plain.

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

Think of the rotten time Alice would have had in Wonderland if she hadn't been broad-minded. Take it as it comes.

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

We were very tired, we were very merry—We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.

My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.

into the darkness they go, the wise & the lovely

How shall I know, unless I go To Cairo and Cathay, Whether or not this blessed spot Is blest in every way? Now it may be, the flower for me Is this beneath my nose; How shall I tell, unless I smell The Carthaginian rose? The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here,—but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel!