One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible. Ernest Shackleton More Quotes by Ernest Shackleton More Quotes From Ernest Shackleton I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion. Ernest Shackleton lionsdonkey The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below. Ernest Shackleton breathingsurfingice If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard. Ernest Shackleton alcoholclassfirsts Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition. Ernest Shackleton taskstasteteacher Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole. Ernest Shackleton eyewanttravel After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied. Ernest Shackleton mealswantmight From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made. Ernest Shackleton lastsjourneyviews
