Jules Verne

“משוררים כמוהם כפתגמים: אפשר תמיד למצוא ניגודים ביניהם.”

“היה זה רופא מכובד שריפא את החולים מכל המחלות מלבד זו שממנה הם מתים.”

“דרכונים לא שימשו מעולם אלא כדי להטריד את הכנים ולאפשר למנוולים להימלט על נפשם.”

“דבר אינו יכול להפתיע את האמריקני.”

“הירח, מפני קרבתו היחסית והשינוי המתמיד של פניו, העסיק תמיד את מחשבתם של יושבי הארץ.”

“מה שכתבתי יהפוך למציאות בסוף המאה.”

“מעולם לא נעשה דבר גדול שלא החל עם תקווה מוגזמת.”

“מה שאדם אחד יכול לדמיין - אדם אחר יכול לממש.”

“Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!”

“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.”

“Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.”

“One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.”

“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 must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?”

“Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club”

“When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.”