“ Every thing in life involves danger; it may even be dangerous to sit down at one's own table, or to put one's hat on one's own head. ”
Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863). copy citation
| Author | Jules Verne |
|---|---|
| Source | Five Weeks in a Balloon |
| Topic | danger life |
| Date | 1863 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by William Lackland |
| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Five_Weeks_in_a_Balloon |
Context
“"Well, the risks, the difficulty of the thing."
"As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome; as for risks and dangers, who can flatter himself that he is to escape them? Every thing in life involves danger; it may even be dangerous to sit down at one's own table, or to put one's hat on one's own head. Moreover, 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."
"There it is!" exclaimed Kennedy, with a shrug.”
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