You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.
You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.
You always knew where you stood with Quezovercoatl. It was generally with a lot of people on top of a great stepped pyramid with someone in an elegant feathered headdress chipping an exquisite obsidia...
YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE
Why does everyone run toward a blood-curdling scream? mumbled the Senior Wrangler. It's contrary to all sense.
Who was it under the chair? said Windle. That was Schleppel, said Lupine. We think he’s a bogeyman. Are bogeymen undead? He won’t say. You’ve never seen him? I thought bogeymen hid under things and, e...
When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.
When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.
Well, yes, but it's not about the football.You're saying that football is not about football?It's the sharing, she said. It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole...
Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months, said the Baron.Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about fore...
Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball....
Well, I’m sorry to have to tell you, sir, that your polar ice caps are below regulation size for a planet of this category, sir.
We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you? Why? It saves time.
We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.
Watering down the currency of expression, causing anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, until nothing is meant and nothing is precise.
WITCHES ARE MATRILINEAL, said Death. THEY FIND IT MUCH EASIER TO CHANGE MEN THAN TO CHANGE NAMES.
Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.
Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet very nagging suspicion that he'd only just escaped with his life.
Tomorrow here is just like yesterday, warmed over.
Tiffany read the sign and smiled. Aha, she said. There was nothing to knock on, so she added Knock, knock in a louder voice. A woman’s voice from within said: Who’s there? Tiffany, said Tiffany. Tiffa...