“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
Mostly Harmless

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
Mostly Harmless

“We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.”

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.”

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

“Cooking is the art of adjustment.”

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”

“Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter and in wine.”

"It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument."

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

“Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.”

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.”

"Responsibility is the price of freedom."

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."

“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.”
Last Chance to See

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

“The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.”

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”

“Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.”

“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

"A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."

“Put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.”

"Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished."

“Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.”

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

Life, the Universe and Everything

"We are punished by our sins, not for them."

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.”

“Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.”

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy