The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.
The dwarfs can turn lead into gold...It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs.-Can we?-Damned if I know. I can't.-Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, if I could.-Can you?-No!-Ah-...
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 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 Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all ty...
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 was how it worked. No magic at all. But that time it had been magic. And it didn’t stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.
That is because you don't yet know how to deal with time, said Wen. But I will teach you to deal with time as you would deal with a coat, to be worn when necessary and discarded when not.Will I have t...
Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.
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 life reaches that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do.
Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.
Some people are born to command. Some people achieve command. And others have command thrust upon them ...
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...
She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do.And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever findherself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd...
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.
Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination...