Top 209 Quotes & Sayings by Jules Verne
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!
Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?
I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.
'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
Man is never perfect nor contented.
In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
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!
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, 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 voyage from Liverpool to New York!
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.
The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.
You're never rich enough if you can be richer.
It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?
Liberty is worth paying for.
One's native land! There should one live! There die!
When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.
The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.
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.
I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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.
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.
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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?
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.
In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.
Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.
Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?
It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.
Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.
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