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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.

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.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

Deep swimmers and high climbers usually don't die in their beds.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.n inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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

But man to whom alone is given/ A ray direct from pitying /Heavn Glories in his heart humane /And creatures for his pleasure slain.

(They were) in search of forbidden fruit.

Hunters are bloodthirsty killers.. George Eastman hunted lions with heavy gauge shells which could stop a locomotive.

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.