A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg.

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.