413 Quotes by Jules Verne

Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!""Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik.

But was it not an enterprise absolutely insane, and that none but the brain of a madman would have conceived?

¡Vamos!, si te asustas tan pronto, ¿qué dejas para más tarde?

...why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days.

Time has no business to keep a whole country in suspense.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.