… the venerable philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle says, you have to do something or be considered, in the great scheme of things, a tit. (Sn)
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‘… the worst thing you can do is nothing.’ (Sn)
It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you are going. And if you don't know where you are going, you're probably going wrong. (ISWM)
'… there are times when promises should be kept and times when promises should be broken, and it takes a Feegle to know the difference.' (ISWM)
'Sometimes what is legal isn't what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference. And sometimes a copper too, if you have the right kind of copper. Clever people know this. Stupid people don't. And the trouble is, stupid people can be oh so clever.' (ISWM)
'And though nobody's saying it, we're locked in here for our protection. You see, everyone else is locked out, and although they sometimes act dumb, policemen can't help being clever. They know that people need witches, they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right.' (ISWM)
People often didn't stop to think. They thought as they went along. Sometimes it was a good idea. Just to stop moving, in case you moved the wrong way. (ISWM)
Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient. (ISWM)
There things that were important and things that weren't, and times when you knew the difference. (UA)
'… the leopard can change his shorts …' (UA)
'I've got a huge workload!'
'Delegate!' 'You know I'm hopeless at delegating, sir!' 'Then delegate the job of delegating to someone who isn't!' (UA) 'Pick the teams alternately so one of you ends up with the weird kid and the other with the fat kid. Some of the fastest mathematics of all time has been achieved by team captains trying not to end up with the weird kid …' (UA)
'Now, I am concluding this meeting, although what it has in fact concluded I shall decide later.' (UA)
… he decided not on the whole truth, but instead on nothing but the truth, which dispensed with the need for honesty. (UA)
Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness, this Ridcully reflected as the Council grumbled in, would certainly explain the saying that a lie could run around the world before Truth has got its, correction, her boots on, since she would have to choose which pair – the idea that any woman in a position to choose would have just one pair of boots being beyond rational belief. (UA)
... when it comes to voting or fishing, sea bass usually wins. (N)
'How can he rise up every morning and decide to be him?' (N)
Wizards when faced with danger, would immediately stop and argue amongst themselves about exactly what kind of danger it was. By the time everyone in the party understood, either it had become the sort of danger where your options are so very, very clear that you instantly take of them or die, or it had got bored and gone away. Even danger has its pride. (LC)
'When in doubt, choose to live.' (TOT)
'I've met a few incorruptible men,’ said Madam Meserole. ‘They tend to die horrible deaths. The world balances out,
you see. A corrupt man in a good world, or a good man in a corrupt one…the equation comes out the same. The world does not deal well with those who don’t pick a side.’ ‘I like the middle,’ said Vimes. ‘That gives you two enemies.' (NW) 'Shoes, men, coffins…never accept the first one you see.' (Th)
'The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Otherwise people wouldn't know what to think. Of course, it helps to be right as well,' the Abbot conceded. (Truck)
'Bein' human means judgin’all the time,’ said the voice behind him. ‘This and that, good and bad, making choices every day… that’s human.’
‘And are you sure you make the right decisions?’ ‘No. But I do the best I can.’ ‘And hope for mercy, eh?’ A bony finger prodded him in the back. ‘Mercy’s a fine thing, but judgin’ comes first. Otherwise you don’t know what you’re bein’merciful about.' (CJ) 'Down there,’ he said, ‘are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no. (GG)
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