What did I tell you about Mister Safety Catch?? said Vimes weakly. When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend,? recited Detritus, saluting.
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.
Crivens!
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
So much universe, and so little time.
Hell wasn’t a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley’s opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.
It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, you don’t know where you’re going. And if you don’t know where you’re going, you’re probably going wrong.
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot’s mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.
The turtle moves.
Just because you can explain it doesn’t mean it’s not still a miracle.
Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
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.
I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.
It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.