Quotes About Words of Wisdom [pauliina gutz]*

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."
-Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
-Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

. . . for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
"Axel," replied the Professor with perfect coolness, "our situation is almost desperate; but there are some chances of deliverance, and it is these that I am considering. If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved. Let us then be prepared to seize upon the smallest advantage."
-Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
-Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

"If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?"
-Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The White Company
At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .
-Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth." Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth
"You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest."
-William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing