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

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!!

Neil Armstrong 1969

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

I'm walking backwards to Christmas

The Goons

It is the job of the Future to be dangerous -A.N. Whitehead (SF-author, I think)

The only way to find the limits of the possible, is to venture a little way past into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie"

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man verses in trying to adapt the world to himself, there for all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man verses in trying to adapt the world to himself, there for all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw

sorry guys i got a bit carried away!

Not famous, but perhaps it should be.....we all know someone like this:

He was a copy in a series that had no original. William Gaddis

Never trust a man wearing brown pants after midnight.....

Frank Sinatra

Baseball is like Church. Many attend, but few understand.

Leo Dueroscher

"To do is to be" - Socrates
"To be is to do" - Descartes
"Do be do be do" - Sinatra

Woman to Winston Churchill "You're Drunk Sir"
Churchill to woman "And you madam are ugly,but in the morning I'll be sober"

"I do like Americans but not when they try and speak French. What a blessing it is they never try and speak English"

Saki (aka H.H. Munro)

A verbal contract is not worth the paper it's written on.

I read it all - half the way through

Sam Goldwyn

"Don't look now, but there's on man too many in this room, and I think it's you..."

~Groucho Marx

"Here's my room, here's your room, and this is the maid's room.

You mean I'd have to go through your room?

A haha ha! That's all right, I won't be in it.

You couldn't put the maid in your room?

What makes you think I couldn't?"

~Chico and Groucho Marx (alternating respectively)

"Let me out! Let me out or throw me a magazine!"

~Groucho Marx (locked in a closet)

"Did anyone ever tell you you have beautiful eyes?

Why no..

Well you have... and so have you! ... Yes, I don't think I've ever seen four more beautiful eyes in my life. Well, three, anyway."

~Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont (alternating respectively)

"I've got it! The painting was eaten by left-handed moths!"

~Chico Marx

"I think we should have a standing army.

Why's that?

Because that way we save money on chairs."

~Chico and Groucho Marx (alternating respectively)

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~Harpo Marx



"Shaken, not stirred"
~You know who

"Let me have men abotu me who are fat, sleek-headed such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous"

~Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

One of my all time favorite Shakespeare lines.

This wallpaper has got to go. Or I will.

-Oscar Wilde's famous last words.

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