More Adventure QuotationsAdventure Quotations K - M (Kiss - Mystery)
Kiss
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words come superfluous. Ingrid Bergman
A long, long kiss – the kiss of youth and love. George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
Eden revives in the first kiss of love. George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
Leave but a kiss in the cup, and I'll not look for wine. Benjamin Johnson
I clasp thy waist; I feel thy bosom's beat. O, kiss me into faintness, sweet and dim. Alexander Smith
Once he drew, with one long kiss, my whole soul through my lips Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge/Learning
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. Albert Schweitzer
Knowledge itself is power. Francis Bacon
The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. Richard Cecil
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. St. Augustine
Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
Laziness
Men, like rivers become crooked by following the line of least resistance. Edvard Raasted
The lazy man aims at nothing and generally hits it.
Life
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
Adventure : the pursuit of life. Daniel Roy Wiarda Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. Germaine Greer In a very real sense, we are all adventurers . Conceived by chance in a moment of ecstasy, born in pain, our living days are torn between the aspiration of hope and exigencies of necessity. And on death we journey into yet another unknown. Joseph Nold One should count each day a separate life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. Laurence Sterne
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time
I find the greatest thing is this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Losing Losing is like dying George Allen
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Love
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations. It is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Honoré de Balzac
We love because it's the only true adventure . Nikki Giovanni
If there is anything better than to be loved, it is loving. Anonymous
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Sir James Matthew Barrie
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease and builds a heaven in hell's despair.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Of all the paths leading to a woman's love, pity is the straightest. Francis Beaumont
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning , unquenchable. Henry Ward Beecher
It is good that men should think but it is indispensable that they should love. Bernard Iddings Bell
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. Samuel Butler
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is woman's whole existence. George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness. The two xes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other. Victor Marie Hugo
It is better to have loved and lost, than not to love at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Magic
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts
Man
It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man but what he is. Henry Frédéric Amiel
Adventure is not outside man; it is within. David Grayson
Show me the man you honor, and I will show you what kind of a man you are, for it shows me what your idea of manhood is, and what kind of man you long to be. Thomas Carlyle
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Rudyard Kipling
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life like yours, this earth would be a God's paradise.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. Alfred North Whitehead
Marriage
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
Marriage is an adventure , like going to war. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. Voltaire
Mind
Chance favors prepared minds
Miracle
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money
You must spend money if you wish to make money
Mother There is in all this cold and hollow world no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart. Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans
Music
Music washes away from the soul the dust of every-day life. Berthold Auerbach
Mystery
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. St. Augustine
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. Albert Schweitzer
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