Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.