.:Or is It Only Lies?:.
-Douglas Adams
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
-Douglas Adams
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
-Douglas Adams
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
-Douglas Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-Douglas Adams
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
-Douglas Adams
In the begining the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
-Douglas Adams
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is there, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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Christ failed.
-Amistad (film)
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
-Aesop
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
-Aesop
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-Herm Albright
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
-Woody Allen
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
-Sir Winston Churchill
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- Cicero
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
-Charles Caleb Colton
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
-David H. Comins
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
-Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
-Albert Einstein
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-Robert Frost
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
-William Goldman
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
-Christopher Hampton
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
-Samuel Johnson
Coordination and balance do not truly exist. They're merely more frequently sought after myths and fables.
-The Redheaded One
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
-Frances Moore Lappe
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
-Fran Lebowitz
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
-Jay Leno
Nearly all man can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
One hundred percent of people die.
-The Asian One
There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
-Randy K. Milholland
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
-Randy K. Milholland
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
-Ann Radcliffe
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
-J. K. Rowling
...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
-J. K. Rowling
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
-J. K. Rowling
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
-J. K. Rowling
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
-J. K. Rowling
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
-John Ruskin
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
-A. Sachs
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
-George Bernard Shaw
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
-Thomas Sowell
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
-Pubilius Syrus
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
-Margaret Thatcher
A witty saying proves nothing.
-Voltaire
History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
-Voltaire
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
-Voltaire
Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
-Voltaire (Last words, spoken to a priest attempting to have him renounce Satan in his last moments.)
Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
-Scott Westerfeld
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.
-Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
-George F. Will
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-Steven Wright
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
-Zeuxis