The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
-James Branch Cabell
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
-Gil Stern
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
-Tom Walsh
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
-Jessamyn West
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
-Frank Herbert
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
-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
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
-Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
-Douglas Adams
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
-Douglas Adams
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
-Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-Douglas Adams
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
-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 and repair.
-Douglas Adams
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
-Douglas Adams
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
-Douglas Adams
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
-Douglas Adams
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
-Albert Schweitzer
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"Wouldn't it be cool to try to die?"
- Charles Shyng
"Y'know Charles, lotsa people do it without even trying"
