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Letter "A" » Adventure
«Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.»
«When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge.»
«Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.»
«We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.»
Author: Jennie Jerome Churchill
| About:
Adventure,
Art
| Keywords:
extravagance, extravagances, hand in hand, in hand
«When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home»
«Without adventure civilization is in full decay»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Adventure,
Civilization
| Keywords:
adventure, decay, in full
«When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Adventure,
Bravery,
Courage,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
adventures, disgraceful, run away, The Mark, The Mark of
«We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Adventure
| Keywords:
adventured, adventures, adventuring, character, come home, Coming Home, discoveries, every day, experience, home, new, perils, The Perils of
«Who seeks adventures finds blows»
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Adventure
| Keywords:
adventurer, adventurers, beard, boldly, bullied, Bullies, bully, bullying, resolute, scare, scare away, tie-on, tied, timid
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