ADVENTURE

Quote: The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Author: Aesop 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist


Quote: And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet


Quote: An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author


Quote: Adventure is worthwhile.

Author: Amelia Earhart 1897-1937, American Aviator, Author


Quote: The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist


Quote: We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

Author: George Farquhar c.1677-1707, Irish Playwright


Quote: I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Author: Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890, Dutch Painter


Quote: Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Author: David Grayson 1870-1946, American Journalist and Writer


Quote: Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist


Quote: We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman


Quote: Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian


Quote: A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Author: Laurence Sterne 1713-1768, British Author


Quote: You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Author: Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941, Indian Poet, Philosopher


Quote: There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.

Author: William Trogdon 1939-, American Author


Quote: If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer


Quote: Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Author: Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher


Quote: The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish

Author: Thornton Wilder 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright


Quote: If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

Author: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist