Terry Pratchett quotes
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
Terry Pratchett Humor quotes ⇑
Humor Quotes
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett Funny quotes ⇑
Funny Quotes
"The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." "Well, of course, it is. It has to deal with the male one."
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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
Death: "There are better things in the world than alcohol, Albert." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.
This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.
Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out... That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.
"Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.