Quotes · Skopia

35 quotes

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1978

★ 6.9

Novel · Science fiction

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless · 1992

★ 6.9

Poem

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

Francis Quarles

1621

★ 5.2

Poem

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature in repose, distinct.

Denise Levertov

Pleasures · 1959

★ 5.2

Legal opinion · Legal writing

To establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.

Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

M'Naghten's Case · 1843

★ 4.3

Novel · Science fiction

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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1979

★ 3.6

Novel · Science fiction

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1979

★ 3.6

Novel · Science fiction

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless · 1992

★ 3.6

Novel · Science fiction

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless · 1992

★ 3.6

Novel · Science fiction

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Douglas Adams

The Salmon of Doubt · 2001

★ 3.6

Novel · Science fiction

A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”

Douglas Adams

The Salmon of Doubt · 2001

★ 3.6

Poem

The road to resolution lies by doubt: The next way home's the farthest way about.

Francis Quarles

Emblems · 1635

★ 3.5

Poem

We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil; We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

Francis Quarles

1635

★ 3.5

Poem

Thou art my way; I wander, if thou fly; Thou art my light; if hid, how blind am I! Thou art my life; if thou withdraw, I die.

Francis Quarles

1643

★ 3.5

Poem · Political literature

What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand? Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand?

James Bramston

1729

★ 3.5

Radio broadcast · Novel · Science fiction

The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe · 1978

★ 3.5

Radio broadcast · Novel · Science fiction

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

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe · 1978

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

Consciousness... Is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

Roger Penrose

1989

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

William Gilbert

De Magnete · 1600

★ 3.5

Political literature

When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter, now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.

Russell Brand

Revolution · 2014

★ 3.5

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