Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.