If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

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

Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.