Quotes About Humor

That's cool,' said Zaphod, 'we'll meet the meat.

All right," said Ford, "just stop panicking!

Poor Arthur, you're not really cut out for this life, are you?" "You call this life?" "You're beginning to sound like Marvin." "Marvin's the clearest thinker I know.

The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife. Trin

What's up? I don't know, said Marvin. I've never been there.

The protruding upper halves of the letters now appear, in the local language, to read "Go stick your head in a pig," and are no longer illuminated, except at times of special celebration.

I don't want to die now! I've got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!

My name,' he said, '. . . is Slartibartfast.

It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day,' or 'You're very tall,' or 'So this is it, we're going to die.' His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably seized up.

quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

It's unpleasantly like being drunk.' 'What's so unpleasant about being drunk?' 'You ask a glass of water.

Think of a number, any number." "Er, five," said the mattress. "Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?" The

Ah, a vida - disse Marvin, lúgubre. - Pode-se odiá-la ou ignorá-la, mas é impossível gostar dela.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Oh God, I'm so depressed. Here's another of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life.

Trillian punched up the figures. They showed two-to-the-power-of-Infinity-minus-one to one against (an irrational number that only has a conventional meaning in Improbability Physics).

Well, I wouldn't overstress that angle, you know,' he said finally, 'one's never alone with a rubber duck.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is, as has been remarked before often and accurately, a pretty startling kind of a thing.

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Arthur Dent, you are not merely a cruel and heartless man, you are also staggeringly tactless.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum." "Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he. Is he.