Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath.

Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.

It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.