Douglas Adams Quotes About Funny
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There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
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Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.
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Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
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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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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.
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Space is big. Really 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, but that's just peanuts to space.
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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.
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My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, 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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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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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 and repair.
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Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.
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The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place...
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