Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.