Jules Verne Quotes
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
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Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.
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Look with all your eyes, look.
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But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?
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With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.
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Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.