First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.

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

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

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.