Top 41 George Mallory Sayings
#1. Because it's there.
-George Mallory, one of the first climbers to attempt Everest, when asked why he wanted to climb it. (He disappeared into a cloud near the summit in 1924, where his body was found in 1999.)
Stephen Bezruchka
#2. Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.
John F. Kennedy
#3. Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory
Conrad Anker
#4. The universe is the baby of time.
Jon Jones
#5. Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
George Leigh Mallory
#6. I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to see the other side.
George Leigh Mallory
#7. I think we should love sinners, and welcome them, and open our arms to them, and then we don't totally accept them into our fellowship as believers and as Christians until they have repented their sins and changed their way of living.
Billy Graham
#8. Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.
George Leigh Mallory
#9. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to LIVE.
George Mallory
#10. One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared ...
George Leigh Mallory
#12. The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.
George Leigh Mallory
#13. Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat."
I grinned. "I've noticed."
Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. "It's an equestrian term."
"Really? I thought you were talking about his ass.
Cate Tiernan
#14. I dial up the suicide prevention hotline, get a busy signal, and wonder if that's a sign of the times.
Troy James Weaver
#15. Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.
George Leigh Mallory
#16. 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
#17. Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe how stupid it is.
George Leigh Mallory
#18. My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.
George Mallory
#20. One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.
George Leigh Mallory
#21. To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.
George Mallory
#22. For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.
George Mallory
#23. Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.
George Leigh Mallory
#26. The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
George Leigh Mallory
#27. Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence.
George Leigh Mallory
#28. What have the Romans ever done for us?
John Cleese
#29. I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.
Hugh Panaro
#30. I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.
John Steinbeck
#31. Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
Horace
#32. I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.
Julia Gillard
#33. There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
#34. We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.
George Mallory
#35. I don't think I can be intimidated about working with any comedic actors. It felt great to get to play hardball with the big boys as they say.
Erick Chavarria
#36. It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.
Slash
#38. The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
Kenneth Clarke
#39. But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'twas always thus and always thus will be.
N.H. Kleinbaum
#41. Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.
Adrian McKinty
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