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Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.
Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.
Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.
My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.
Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.
The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.
If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.
Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened.
Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.
How can someone who means so much to a person mean nothing the next day?
It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.
You must trust yourself more than you trust anyone else with your money.
Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.
I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.
High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.
What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.
The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.
Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.
The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.
I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!
We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.
Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.
I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.
My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.
This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently.
Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.
I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death
How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!
I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.
Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.