Quotes at end are almost worth reading. > Death by stupidity or neglect of reasonable safety = > measures, isn't much > appreciated in the pilot psyche. :-) > Or the way one of my mentors put it years ago, Piss Poor = > Planning Equals > Piss Poor Performance... just like Electronics and = > Software Engineering. "Adventure is just bad planning" Roald Amundsen I appear to be a traveller, according to anon "The traveller was active; he went strenuously in search = of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is = passive." anon Russell _______________________________________ Not to mention (even as I do) Many quite good. But not all. http://www.dirtyboots.co.za/adventure%20quotes.htm "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly = considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly = considered." G.K. Chesterton "Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a = new adventure. It's just not done." Elizabeth Warnock = Fernea. A View of the Nile "Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It = should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not = swallowed at a gulp." Ashley Dukes, The Man with a Load of = Mischief "Adventure is hardship aesthetically considered." = Barry Targan "Life is a dangerous adventure,' says the American, = and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an = adventure." Jose Bergamin "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..." Ralf Waldo Emerson "The test of an adventure is that when you're in the = middle of it say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into = an awful mess; I wish..." Thornton Wilder "Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one = end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as = possible." Alexander 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 "We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the = adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without = challenge, we're only alive." Alexandra Ripley "Adventure is not outside a man; it is within." Ray = Stannard Baker "Adventure is worthwhile in itself." Amelia Earhart "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than = outright exposure, it is either a daring adventure or = nothing." Helen Keller "Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The = greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who = gets the most out of life." G.K. Chesterton "I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate." = Vincent van Gogh "Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward = adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul." Rebecca = West "The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and = nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you." = E.L. Konigsburg "To die will be an awfully big adventure." James = Matthew Barrie "Adventures happen only to those incapable of = planning an expedition." Richard Evans Schultes "Get out of control, but appear under control. It's = not bad to alarm other people, though - it's good for them." = Hunter S. Thompson "Life is either a great adventure or nothing." Helen = Keller "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There = can be no courage unless you're scared." Eddie Rickebacker "A timid person is frightened before a danger, a = coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward." = Jean Paul Richter "Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up = anyway." John Wayne "It is only in adventure that some people succeed in = knowing themselves - in finding themselves." Andr=E9 Gide "I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, = in business, and even close at hand ... Adventure is a state = of mind - and spirit." Jacqueline Cochran "There is no end to the adventures that we can have = if only we seek them with our eyes open." Jawaharla Nehru "The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live = the life of your dreams." Oprah Winfrey "Everything a human being wants can be divided into = four components: love, adventure, power and fame." Johan = Wolfgang von Goethe "I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more = soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice = cream." Matthew Heywood "Adventure is worthwhile." Aesop "The traveler was active; he went stenuously in = search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist = is passive." anon "Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of = your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure = lie." anon "A large volume of adventures may be grasped within = this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in = everything." Laurence Sterne "Chance is the providence of adventurers." Napoleon = Bonaparte "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where = there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up = too much space." Anonymous "In the universe, there are things that are known, = and things that are unknown, and in between, there are = doors." William Blake "Gauls! We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that = the sky may fall on our heads tomorrow. But as we all know, = tomorrow never comes!" Adventures of Asterix "A life without adventure is likely to be = unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to = take whatever form it will is sure to be short." Bertrand = Russell "Adventure is the champagne of life." G.K. = Chesterton "Adventures are to the adventurous." English Proverb "And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an = agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a = battle, or an adventure of any lively description." Lord = Byron "Without adventure civilization is in full decay." = Alfred North Whitehead "It's when you're safe at home that you wish you = were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure = you wish your were safe at home." Thornton Wilder "It is always the adventurers who do great things, = not the sovereigns of great empires." Charles-Louis de = Montesquieu "We should come home from adventures, and perils, = and discoveries every day with new experience and = character." Henry David Thoreau "Let the spirit of adventure set the tone." anon "For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is = necessary and sufficient for one to recount it." Jean-Paul = Sartre "Men of age object too much, consult too long, = adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive = business home to the full period, but ..." Francis Bacon "'Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready,' = our lives can really be the great adventure we so = passionately want them to be." Hortense Odlum "I'm going to take you on the greatest adventure of = your life. You probably will never even thank me. Let's go." = Austin "Adventure, without it, why live?" Johan Radcliffe "'Life is a dangerous adventure,' says the American, = and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an = adventure." Jose Bergamin "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..." Ralf Waldo Emerson "The test of an adventure is that when you're in the = middle of it say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into = an awful mess; I wish..." Thornton Wilder "Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one = end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as = possible." Alexander Eliot "I decided that adventure was the best way to = learn." Lloyd Alexander "I have but one life to give to adventure." Bors The = adventures of Sir Galahad "Renegades is a better word. It implies a spirit of = adventure. Desertion is cowardly. We're not that." Captain = Jefferson Addis "Come on! There is greater adventure beyond." = Porthos The Iron Mask "The colour of adrenalin is brown." Jenny Radcliffe "I want to find something else, unknowable, some = place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. A = sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined." Chuck = Palahniuk "Adventure is worthwhile." Aristotle "This you should do unless you are one of the = blessed few in whom the pure spirit of adventure is not = dead." Henry, O. "Adventure: the pursuit of life." Daniel Roy Wiarda "Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or = adventure, it is always the same voice that calls." Antoine = de Saint-Exup=E9ry "Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, = instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the = only moments in which they truly lived." Richard Bach "One way to get the most out of life is to look upon = it as an adventure." William Feather "Every man can transform the world from one of the = monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure." = Irving Wallace "'Adventurer' . he that goes to meet whatever may = come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or = another..." H. Rider Haggard "We live in a world full of beauty, charm and = adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can = have if only we seek them with our eyes open." Jawaharlal = Nehru "Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing." Johan = Friedrick von Schiller "A large volume of adventures may be grasped within = this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in = everything." Laurence Sterne "If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least = we shall find something new." Voltaire "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the = courage to lose sight of the shore." Andr=E9 Gide "Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some = bold adventure, worthy of our trip." Aristophanes "I hope there's lots of food in our next adventure." = Tum Tum Ninja Turtles "Life is adventure, not predicament." James = Broughton "If at first you don't succeed so much for = skydiving." Henry Youngman -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist