You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.

What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.