Jules Verne Quotes

Jules Verne — French Author born on February 08, 1828, died on March 24, 1905

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction... (wikipedia)

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

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.

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!

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.

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?