You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.IT'S EDUCATIONAL.'What if she cuts herself?'THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.
"I meant", said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)
I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.
I commend my soul to any god that can find it.
Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.
"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. Have you thought of going into teaching?
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.
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