Quotes by Richard Adams

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

You cannot rule the world El-ahrairah, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince With a Thousand Enemies. And whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you - digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.