It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.
"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."
It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.
Granny Weatherwax’s approach to foreign tongues was to repeat herself loudly and slowly.
It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. #quotes
#booksky What's your favorite book opening line? :)
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it. – Monstrous Regiment #Quotes
Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
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What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. #Pratchett #quotes
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. #Pratchett #quotes
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to. #Pratchett #quotes
Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. #Pratchett #quotes
“I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I TURN UP ONLY ONCE.”
It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no one knew where he kept it.
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The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving. #quotes #Pratchett #Discworld
#3. This one is my absolute favourite by my absolute favourite author. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett.
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He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no one knew where he kept it.
The maze was so small that people got lost looking for it.
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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
(Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites)
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Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly.
But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.
(Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) #quotes
"Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course."
(Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
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No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. #Quotes #discworld
It is traditional, when loading wire trolleys, to put the most fragile items at the bottom.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)
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Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)
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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
- (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures) #quotes
By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.
- (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures) #quotes
Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.
A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!)
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