Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
Terry Pratchett Quotations
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Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The price of being the best is having to be the best.
When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.
Personal isn't the same as important.
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant idiot.
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.