“I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.”
Robert Falcon Scott“Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.”
Robert Falcon Scott“But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.”
Robert Falcon Scott“I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.”
Robert Falcon Scott“I am just going outside and may be some time." Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.”
Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates“Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.”
Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals