While evidence says that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, they're probably all on first steps.
Where I come from, Annagramma, they have the Sheepdog Trials. Shepherds travel there from all over to show off their dogs. And there're silver crooks and belts with silver buckles and prizes of all ki...
What’s this here, he said suspiciously, about us got to give you faggots?Oh, we have to have them, said Newt, We burn them.Say what?
What’s Ephebe like? said Ptraci.I’ve never been there. Apparently it’s ruled by a Tyrant.I hope we don’t meet him, thenTeppic shook his head. It’s not like that, he said. They have a new Tyrant every...
What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?
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.
Well, I suppose there’s no place like home, she said. No, said Granny Weatherwax, still looking thoughtful. No. There’s a billion places like home. But only one of ’em’s where you live.
We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.'Pre...
We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?
We may even find out why the duck-billed platypus.**Not why is it . Just why it is.
We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.
Vimes, listening with his mouth open, wondered why the hell it was that dwarfs believed that they had no religion and no priests. Being a dwarf was a religion. People went into the dark for the good o...
Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.
Vimes had never mastered ambition. It was something that happened to other people.
Vetinari gave him a look that did not actually employ a raised eyebrow but which implied that one might be forthcoming if the recipient of the look pushed his luck.
Usually he didn’t bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn’t bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.
This is Lancre we’re talkin’ about. If we was men, we’d be talking about layin’ down our lives for the country. As women, we can talk about laying down.
This ain’t right, you know. She’s the one who ought to rule, fair enough. And you used magic to help her this far, and that’s all right. But it stops right here. It’s up to her what happens next. You...
Think critically about what you are told. Do not accept the word of authority unthinkingly. Science is not a belief system: no belief system instructs you to question the system itself. Science does....
Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of wa...