Five Weeks in a Balloon Quotes

“As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Besides," said Kennedy, "the time when industry gets a grip of everything and uses it to its own advantage may not be particularly amusing. If men go on inventing machinery they'll end up by being swallowed by their own machines. I've always thought that the last day will be brought about by some colossal boiler heated to three thousand atmospheres blowing up the world."
"And I bet the Yankees will have had a hand in it," said Joe.”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“The man who was born to be hung will never be drowned!”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“If savages had the ways of gentlemen, where would be the difference?”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“There will not always be scientific men, perhaps, but there always will be poets.”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Poh! doctor, one has only just to follow things along as they happen, and he can always work his way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take matters as they come.”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Now, if the question were to destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose than the gratification of your instincts as a sportsman, seems hardly worth the trouble.”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“L'homme né pour être pendu ne sera jamais noyé!”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“¡Cuán infinito es el poder de Dios hasta en sus más terribles manifestaciones!”
― Jules Verne, Cinco semanas en globo

“It won't do to be too ambitious.”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“La mort, commencement des choses éternelles, n'est que la fin des soucis terrestres.”
― Jules Verne, Cinq Semaines en ballon (Classiques t. 2028)