George Leigh Mallory's Quotes

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.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

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.

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.

Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.

If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?