Jules Verne Quotes
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
Jules Verne
Quotes to Explore
-
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
Jules Verne
-
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten.
Jules Verne
-
Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.
Jules Verne
-
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
Jules Verne
-
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
Jules Verne
-
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.
Jules Verne
-
Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
Jules Verne
-
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
Jules Verne
-
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
Jules Verne
-
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
Jules Verne
-
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
-
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
Jules Verne
