h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

( Maria Robinson )

Today you are you, that is truer than true.
There is no one alive who is youer than you.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it - JFK

It'll all be OK in the end. If it's not OK, then it's not the end - can't remember!

A leopard never changes his socks - me.

"A leopard never changes his socks - me."

that is very similar to quote often in terry pratchett novels: A leopard never changes his shorts

One of personal favourites is

'Olim Memminisse Juvabit'

we will look back upon these things with joy

or the satire behind Ducle et decorum est, pro patria mori

For us non Latin speakers ....

'Olim Memminisse Juvabit'

Perhaps someday we will look back upon these things with joy.


Ducle et decorum est, pro patria mori

it is sweet and right to die for your country


T1mown,

I know that you are new here, on hootoo it is acceptable to post in a language other than English only if you provide a translation.

<./>HouseRules</.> for reference ....

Hello Feisor

I don't think my post was very clear, or maybe it's yours, but i have included the translation of each phrase below. apologies if it's a bit Ambiguous!

No worries

There was a translation of the first but not the second .... I just didn't want one of your early posts to hootoo to be yikesed. I can be quite discouraging for some

Fair enough, thanks for the heads up!

i'm not easily discouraged
back on topic, another favourite of mine:

one of DNA's,

"I can appreciate the beauty of a garden without having to believe in the fairies at the bottom of it"

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.


Albert Einstein

A man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do- Clint Eastwood.

If they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Before you critisise a man, try walking a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes."

Jimmy Carr, amongst others.

The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think.



James Beattie

If you're all about the destination then take a fing flight.

because we're going nowhere slowly, but we're enjoying all the sights.

Frank Turner

Don't take life too seriously. None of us will get out alive.

Bugs Bunny

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.


Anne Frank

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

John Lennon

Anne Frank

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most...

Apparently Ozzy Osbourne, but dont quote me on that

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.


Anonymous