History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk.

Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.