"They were regarded as 'right-thinking people' 

who are largely  recognizable as being right-thinking people 

by the mere fact that they hold this view"

from "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" by Douglas Adams
photo from science daily

"It's a forgery so great it should be worshipped with prayers and gongs and incense"

from "A Bridge of Birds" by Barry Hughart

"If rudeness was not attributable to ignorance,
it could be taken as a sure sign
that one was speaking to a member of the aristocracy."

"It always surprises me after a family row to find that the world outdoors has remained the same..
Perhaps the wind blows anger away."

from "A Red Herring Without Mustard" by Alan Bradley

Cheers

The frogs and the serpents each had a football team,

And I heard their cheerleaders in my dream:

“Bilgewater, bilgewater,” called the frog,

“Bilgewater, bilgewater,

Sis, boom, bog!

Roll ‘em off the log,

Slog ‘em in the sog,

Swamp ‘em, swamp’em,

Muck mire quash!”

“Sisyphus, Sisyphus,” hissed the snake,

“Sibilant, syllabub,

Syllable-loo-ba-lay,

Scylla and Charybdis,

Sumac, asphodel,

How do you spell Success?

With an S-S-S!”

By Eve Merriam

photo from icanhazcheeseburger

"We always want to love the recipients of our charity...but it is not necessary.
Indeed, it is sometimes not possible."

from "A Red Herring Without Mustard" by Alan Bradley

"Many of the 'defects' people have where
people deviate from rational behaviour,
you can attribute to either
the complexity of the problem
or simple rules of thumb
which usually work,
but occasionally backfire"

Steve Leavitt from Freakonomics Podcast

"Those who are regular followers of the doings of Arthur Dent
may have received an impression of his character and habits which,

while it includes the truth,
and of course nothing but the truth,
falls somewhat short in its composition of
'the whole truth'
in all its glorious aspects."

from "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" by Douglas Adams