Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, read more

Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

. . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.

. . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

You can't put equipment on your gravestone.
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Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking.

You can't put equipment on your gravestone.
*
Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says
Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses read more

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says
Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse
and mule.
[Fr., Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.--
Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure--perd cheval et mule,
respondit Malcon.]

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.