The Wit and Wisdom of Douglas Adams





“His mouth started to speak, but his brain decided it hadn’t got anything to say yet and shut it again. His brain then started to contend with the problem of what his eyes told it they were looking at, but in doing so relinquished control of the mouth which promptly fell open again. Once more gathering up the jaw, his brain lost control of his left hand which then wandered around in an aimless fashion. For a second or so the brain tried to catch the left hand without letting go of the mouth and simultaneously tried to think about what was buried in the ice, which is probably why the legs went and Arthur dropped restfully to the ground.”





“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”


“’I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.’ ‘Yeah,’ said the voice from under the table, ‘you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.'”

7 thoughts on “The Wit and Wisdom of Douglas Adams”

  1. Haha! These are awesome. Especially the underestimation of fools. See signs about how coffee is hot….

  2. This is awesome! He also wrote one of my favorite episodes of Doctor Who – The City of Death, back in 1979. Excellent dialogue.

  3. Almost as good as Wodehouse…but not quite.😀 The bit about the ingenuity of fools is particularly clever-and very true. Why do they have to print “warning: contains milk” on the jug of milk?

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