Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. "

" One's native land! There should one live! There die! "

" Man is never perfect nor contented. "

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

" Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. "

" When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey. "

" Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. "

" I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. "

" However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous. "

" Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it. "

" I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. "

" Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. "

" It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil. "

" In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. "

" The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin. "

" It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness. "

" Is not a woman's heart unfathomable? "

" 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. "

" With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. "

" Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. "

" Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. "

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

" Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. "

" The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered. "

" You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. "

" I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you. "

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

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

" I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye. "