panic quotes

Don't Panic.

- Douglas Noe«  l Adams
  The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, preface. These words are said to be written in large friendly letters on the cover of the Guide.

Wee, sleeket, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty Wi' bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an'chase thee, Wi'murd'ring pattle!

- Robert Burns
  'To A Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest with the Plough, November,1785', stanza1.

Paris is a beast of a city to be into those who cannot getoutof it.Rousseausaidwell, that allthetimehewasin it, he was only trying how he should leave it† The continual panic inwhichthe passenger iskept, thealarm and the escape from it, the anger and the laughter at it, must haveaneffectonthe Parisian character, and tend to make it the whiffling, skittish, snappish, volatile, inconsequential, unmeaning thing it is.

-William Hazlitt
  Notes on a Journey through France and Italy (published 1856).

In all directions stretched the Great Australian Emptiness, in which the mind is the least of possessions†and the march of material ugliness does not raise a quiver from the average nerves. It was the exaltation of the'average'that made me panic most.

- Patrick Victor Martindale White
  Essay on his literary career, in Australian Letters,'The Prodigal Son', vol.1, no.3, Apr.