The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.
The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.
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 t...
The children refused to disbelieve in the monsters because, frankly, they knew damn well the things were there. But she’d found that they could, very firmly, also believe in the poker.
The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.
The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology, quoted Rincewind.Ah, said Eric, Good.No, said Rincewind patiently. It means time measurement.Oh.
The R is the wrong way roond and you left the A and a Y out of Anybody,' said Jeannie, because it is a wife's job to stop her husband actually exploding with pride.'Ach, wumman, I didna' ken which way...
The Library didn’t only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane i...
The Librarian shyly held out a small, battered green book. Vimes had been expecting something bigger, but he took it anyway. It paid to look at any book the orangutan gave you. He matched you up to bo...
The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected...
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one t...
That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.
That'll do
Sometimes people fools themselves into believing things that aren't true. Sometimes that can be quite dangerous for the person. They see the world in a wrong way. They won't let themselves see that wh...
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Some people say you achieve immortality through your children, said the minstrel.Yeah? said Cohen. Name one of your great-granddads, then.
So many people never seemed to think about the consequences of their everyday actions. And then a witch on her broom would have to set out from her bed in the rain in the dead of night because of I on...
Sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen is work. Thousands of offices operate on this very principle.
She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.
She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently been able to keep this a secret from people.