But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

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.

L shot Maki a disappointed look. But soon he forgot everything when Misa Amane appeared onstage. Enraptured he began to cheer with the girls in black lace and frilly skirts.

As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.-Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

Diane St. John had once said he looked as if he would speak in poetry, should he ever deign to speak at all.

maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.

That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.