Quotes About Adventure

A person who has traveled extensively across many cities since birth to an adulthood can give better opinion about the taste of food of any place than the people who have spent most part of their life at one or a couple of towns.

Girls like more backbencher than topper but act to love only one who can fly her often on the aeroplane or chopper.

The greatest adventure for a person is to live own life, but even greater daring than that for a man is to live a married life and sustain by offering own opinion to his wife.

There is no place worth going outside home without bulging money in the pocket.

Live life without regrets.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

No matter how dutiful one tried to feel, it was impossible to be sad at leaving this behind, not when the blood ran hot and rich in the veins, and when out in the world there were all the untried beckoning enchantments : dancing, sensuous music, merriment - and love.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

When I went South I never meant to write a book: I rather despised those who did so as being of an inferior brand to those who did things and said nothing about them. But that they say nothing is too often due to the fact that they have nothing to say, or are too idle or too busy to learn how to say it. Every one who has been through such an extraordinary experience has much to say, and ought to say it if he has any faculty that way.

Unfortunately the dogs misunderstood their orders and, instead of piloting us, dashed off on their own. We saw them like specks in the distance in the direction of the old seal crack.

Whilst we knew what we had suffered and risked better than any one else, we also knew that science takes no account of such things; that a man is no better for having made the worst journey in the world; and that whether he returns alive or drops by the way will be all the same a hundred years hence if his records and specimens come safely to hand.

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

Generally the risks were taken, for, on the whole, it is better to be a little over-bold than a little over-cautious, while always there was a something inside urging you to do it just because there was a certain risk, and you hardly liked not to do it. It is so easy to be afraid of being afraid!

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion

From the masthead one can see a few patches of open water in different directions, but the main outlook is the same scene of desolate hummocky pack.

If you want a good polar traveller get a man without too much muscle, with good physical tone, and let his mind be on wires—of steel. And if you can't get both, sacrifice physique and bank on will.

We were the first that found that famous country:We marched by a king's name: we crossed the sierras:Unknown hardships we suffered: hunger.

Be bold! That's one way Of getting through life.

Of course, not all journeys are undertaken for sacred purposes. Some people may undertake journeys for the simplest reason of all: curiosity. They wish to see what there is to see just beyond the next hill, or over the far river, or at the end of the long trail leading towards dawn....

Stories wander around, go from one land to another, sometimes parts change.