Jules Verne Quotes
I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
Jules Verne
Quotes to Explore
Hymns are companions for life travelers.
Andy Griffith
People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted
Claude C. Hopkins
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.
Epictetus
The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
Lao Tzu
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
Mahatma Gandhi
I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Worthy books
Are not companions – they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Philip James Bailey
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
Jules Verne
I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.
John Ruskin
You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.
Emily Dickinson
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
Bernard of Clairvaux
A charger's saddle is an exalted throne, the best companions are books alone.
Al-Mutanabbi
