Terry Pratchett

If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

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.

It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

Revolutions always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"Death thought about it."Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."