Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!
It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.
They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.
He’sh mad?’ ‘Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.’ ‘Ah, then he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he’sh just ecshentric.
The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”
After all, when you seek advice from someone it’s certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.
For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.
Given enough coffee I could rule the world.
I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.
Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.
What’s money interested in? More money.
An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.
Of course, Ankh-Morpork’s citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.
I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.
It’s either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.
When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it – philosopically speaking – make a noise.
I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.
Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!
No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...