Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne.

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency.