“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.” 

“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.” 

“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.” 

“I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me 'Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid' - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all.” 

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.” 

“I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.” 

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.” 

“The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.” 

“The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.” 

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?” 

“Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.” 

“My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first” 

“Ow! My brains!” 

“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.” 

“The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!” 

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.” 

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

“Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...” 

“Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)” 

“There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.” 

“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.” 

“And so the Universe ended.” 

“Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life.” 

“It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.” 

“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.” 

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.” 

“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” 

“The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!” 

“And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.” 

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. Douglas MacArthur

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

“This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.” 

“Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.” 

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

In war there is no substitute for victory.