Author: Jules Verne

Quotes

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

- Jules Verne

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

- Jules Verne

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.

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.

- Jules Verne

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

- Jules Verne

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.

- Jules Verne

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

- Jules Verne

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

- Jules Verne

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.

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.

- Jules Verne

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

- Jules Verne

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