What is "adventure?"
Adventure is just bad planning. -- Roald Amundsen
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. -- Alfred North Whitehead
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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
There is no certainty; there is only adventure. -- Roberto Assagioli
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. -- T.S Eliot
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. -- William Trogdon
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. -- George Leigh Mallory
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. -- Alfred North Whitehead
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. -- Jim Whittaker