Give me your quote of the day (yours or someone else's)

[lady of shallot]

"The past is indestructible, sooner or later things turn up again.
One of the things that turns up is a plan to destroy the past."

Borges

[VMLM]

And now some quotes from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, just in case anybody hasn't read it yet and because I like it so much .

"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

Quite how Zaphod Beeblebrox arrived at the idea of holding a seance at this point is something he was never quite clear on.
Obviously the subject of death was in the air, but more as something to be avoided than harped upon.
Possibly the horror that Zaphod experienced at the prospect of being reunited with his deceased relatives led on to the thought that they might just feel the same way about him and, what's more, be able to do something about helping to postpone this reunion.

...

"Concentrate," hissed Zaphod, "on his name."
"What is it?" asked Arthur.
"Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth."
"What?"
"Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth. Concentrate!"
"The Fourth?"
"Yeah. Listen, I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox, my father was Zaphod Beeblebrox the Second, my grandfather Zaphod Beeblebrox the Third..."
"What?"
"There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!"

"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."

[johnson1010]

"she was technically correct, but then she convinced them she was guessing."

[jeff481]

Rule Number One of surviving in the sticks: never try to make your own ice skating rink on a hill.