And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.

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.

For Thousands To Come To Christ, We Must Employ Kingdom Principles

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.

If people are worried about unfair advancement, they should look at the sons-in-law of the world running companies. They've truly slept their way to the top.

With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.

I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.

It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.