Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
People were strange like that. Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero.
People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all t...
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only phy...
People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter follows summer. It was not a wrong thing. There were tears, of course, but they were for those who were left; those...
Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look.A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a...
One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.
Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.
Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.
Now , snapped the Dean, we've searched for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?
Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.
My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman, it said.I’ll be the judge of that, warned Granny, and added, Don’t call me woman.Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz, said the demon smugly.
Mr Tulip raised a trembling hand. 'Is this the bit where my whole life passes in front of my eyes?' he said.NO, THAT WAS THE BIT JUST NOW.'Which bit?'THE BIT, said Death, BETWEEN YOUR BEING BORN AND Y...
Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.
Miss Tick sniffed. 'You could say this advice is priceless,' she said. 'Are you listening?''Yes,' said Tiffany.'Good. Now ... if you trust in yourself ...''Yes?''... and believe in your dreams ...''Ye...
Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits...
Lu-Tze had long considered that everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
Look, how about this? Let's pretend we've had the row and I've won. See? It saves a lot of effort.
Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.
Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy, said Granny, glaring at the sky. But you can’t make ’em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin’ their he...