ADVENTURE

Related Subjects: Boldness, Danger, Events, Pioneer, Risk, Romance

1. The adventurer is an outlaw. Adventure must start with running away from home.—WILLIAM BOLITHO, Twelve Against the Gods

2. Are there not, dear Michael,
   Two points in the adventure of the diver,
   One—when, a beggar, he prepares to plunge,
   One—when, a prince, he rises with his pearl?—BROWNING, Paracelsus

3. Adventures are to the adventurous.—DISRAELI, Ixion in Heaven

4. 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.—EMERSON, Natural History of Intellect

5. Some bold adventurers disdain
   The limits of their little reign,
   And unknown regions dare descry.—THOMAS GRAY, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

6. Who seeks adventures finds blows.—Proverb

7. Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
   Of moving accidents by flood and field,
   Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello