People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.

In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement." "Oh.

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

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead