Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.' Precisely,' said a passing bush.

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.

Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.