There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.
...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the environment, you're being chased and eaten by most of the planet's large animals, and suddenly tiny versions of one of the worst of them wanders into the cave and starts to purr.
'Don't think of it as dying,' said Death. 'Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.'
Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.
Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships, or being patronised by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it.
-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.
Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
The second mouse gets the cheese!
The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?
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