The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they soon realised that the most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its desc...
Adam looked at Them. They were his kind of people, too.You just had to decide who your friends really were.
It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities. You worked away, patiently asking questions a...
Wolves hate werewolves.''What? That can't be right! When she's wolf-shaped she's just like a wolf!''So? When she's human-shaped she's just like a human. And what's that got to do with anything? Humans...
The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
That --ing zombie is going to end up on the end of a couple of --ing handy and versatile kebab skewers,' said Mr Tulip. 'An' then I'm gonna put an edge on this --ing spatula. An' then... then I'm gonn...
Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people, mumbled Sam.Do they? said Vimes. Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?'cos they torture people.
The truly smart, having discovered they are cleverer than the people around them, soon learn that the smartest thing of all for them to do is to prevent said people from ever finding this out.
Sometimes it’s like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone’s going to get stung and you don’t care.
It wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around. People who’d never see it in their whole life nevertheless spent that life working for i...
That's No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, mistress,' said Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock. 'Ye were one jock short,' he added helpfully.
Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds!
Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed t...
Why are our people going out there, said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves’ Guild.Because they are showing a brisk pioneering spirit and seeking wealth and … additional wealth in a new land, said Lord Vetinar...
Have - have you got an appointment?' he said.'I don't know,' said Carrot. 'Have we got an appointment?''I've got an iron ball with spikes on,' Nobby volunteered.'That's a morningstar, Nobby.''Is it?''...
Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.
Are you staying with us? It could be dangerous,' said William, realizing that he was saying this to a vampire iconographer who undied every time he took a picture.
Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suici...
Can't we do anything about it? - No! - Then I can't see the sense in panicking, said Twoflower calmly
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