Jules Verne Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“While there is life, there is hope.”

“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!”

“An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”

“Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.”

“The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.”

“Liberty is worth paying for.”

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

“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.”

“Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.”

“How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!”