And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drug...
ABOYNE (vb.)To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
And the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
During this century (the twentieth) we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music and television. Before they came along all entert...
[...]he also had a device which looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million...
You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?'
Would you like to see the menu? he said, or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?...Good evening, it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in...
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which...
Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
There were three of them, three police cars left askew across the road in a way that transcended mere parking. It sent out a massive signal to the world saying that the law was here now taking charge...
The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.
The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’ ‘But,’ says Man, ‘the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t...
Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.
Marvin, he said, just get this elevator go up will you? We've got to get to Zarniwoop.Why? asked Marvin dolefully. I don't know, said Zaphod, but when I find him, he'd better have a very good reason f...
It gives me my headache just trying to think down to your level