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| It is always the ADVENTURErs who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. | Aesop | 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist |
| Without ADVENTURE civilization is in full decay. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| The vitality of thought is in ADVENTURE. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and if need be, die for it. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| ADVENTURE is worthwhile. | Amelia Earhart | 1897-1937, American Aviator, Author |
| The good critic is he who relates the ADVENTUREs of his soul among masterpieces. | Anatole France | 1844-1924, French Writer |
| I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great ADVENTURE in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life. | Anthony Perkins | |
| It is in the compelling zest of high ADVENTURE and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. | Antoine De Saint-Exupery | 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer |
| Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. | Carl Jung | 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist |
| Why fear death? It is the most beautiful ADVENTURE in life. | Charles Frohman | |
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| The great living experience for every man is his ADVENTURE into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| ADVENTURE is not outside man; it is within. | David Grayson | 1870-1946, American Journalist and Writer |
| Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into ADVENTURE and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. | Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist |
| A work of art is above all an ADVENTURE of the mind. | Eugene Ionesco | 1912-, Romanian-born French Playwright |
| Men of age object too much, consult too long, ADVENTURE too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| People of age object too much, consult too long, ADVENTURE too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| 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. | George Farquhar | c.1677-1707, Irish Playwright |
| An ADVENTURE is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an ADVENTURE wrongly considered. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its ADVENTUREs, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| Marriage is an ADVENTURE, like going to war. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
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| Life is either a daring ADVENTURE or nothing. | Helen Keller | 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist |
| Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring ADVENTURE, or nothing. | Helen Keller | 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist |
| We should come home from ADVENTUREs, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Each child is an ADVENTURE into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. | Hubert H. Humphrey | 1911-1978, American Democratic Politician, Vice President |
| 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. | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman |
| We know that their ADVENTUREs are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible. | Jean Genet | 1910-1986, French Playwright, Novelist |
| Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. | Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian |
| Death is the great ADVENTURE beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance. | Joseph Bayly | American Author and Speaker on the Subject of Death. |
| A large volume of ADVENTUREs may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. | Laurence Sterne | 1713-1768, British Author |
| 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. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
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| Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, ADVENTURE, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. | Lorraine Anderson | |
| A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for ADVENTURE and escape they've had since time began. | Marguerite Duras | 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker |
| Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh ADVENTURE; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing. | Marie Carmichael Stopes | 1880-1958, British Scientist, Pioneer of Birth Control |
| Chance is the providence of ADVENTURErs. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, French General, Emperor |
| We love because it's the only true ADVENTURE. | Nikki Giovanni | 1943-, American Poet |
| We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our ADVENTUREs were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. | Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright |
| You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. | Rabindranath Tagore | 1861-1941, Indian Poet, Philosopher |
| 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. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the ADVENTUREr, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid ADVENTURErs. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
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| To die will be an awfully big ADVENTURE. | Sir James M. Barrie | 1860-1937, British Playwright |
| Let the spirit of ADVENTURE set the tone. | Source Unknown | |
| It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an ADVENTURE. When you're having an ADVENTURE you wish you were safe at home. | Thornton Wilder | 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright |
| Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high ADVENTURE and art with intellect. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun] | Tommy Lee Jones | 1946-, American Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Rancher |
| I am not an ADVENTUREr by choice but by fate. | Vincent Van Gogh | 1853-1890, Dutch Painter |
| 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. | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| Marriage is the only ADVENTURE open to the cowardly. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| The great social ADVENTURE of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. | Walter Lippmann | 1889-1974, American Journalist |
| A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, ADVENTUREs boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. | William Penn | 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania |
