Humor Quote by Douglas Adams — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me 'Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid' - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all.”

“The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of”

“I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe in God, or at least not in the one we’ve invented for ourselves in England to fulfill our peculiarly English needs, and certainly not in the ones they’ve invented in America, who supply their servants with toupees, television stations, and, most important, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world.”

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.”

“You are a delinquent and a plague. Please come.”

“You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister.”

“Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man,”

“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”