Accidents Quote by Ernest Shackleton

(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness,…

— Ernest Shackleton

“merchants who financed this expedition viewed it as a reconnaissance mission rather than a trading venture and little cargo was loaded on board the…

— Giles Milton

“Some came for sheer love of adventure and wanted no reward beyond that; some wanted fame or its counterfeit, publicity; some were mercenary and…

— Lawrence McKinley Gould

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It…

— Edmund Hillary

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it…

— Anonymous

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

— Winston Churchill

Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes…

— Ben Saunders

Old men ought to be explorers.

— T. S. Eliot

“Hunting was not hard work. It consisted of a leisurely stroll in the country with a bunch of friends, followed by a short period…

— Robert L. Forward

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties…

— Voltaire

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics…

— Fanny Kemble

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for…

— Laurence Sterne