'Look, just because a woman’s got no teeth doesn’t mean she’s wise. It might just mean she’s been stupid for a very long time.' (W)
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Younger assassins, who are usually very poor, have very clear ideas about the morality of wealth until they become older assassins, who are usually very rich, when they begin to take the view that injustice has its good points. (P)
'Laughing in the face of danger is not a survival strategy,’ said the god.
‘Oh, they don’t laugh,’ said Ponder gloomily. ‘They say things like, “you call that dangerous? It’s not a patch on the kind of danger you used to get when we were lads, eh, Senior Wrangler, what what?' (LC) The night is always old. He’d walked too often down dark streets in the secret hours and felt the night stretching away, and known in his blood that while days and kings and empires come and go, the night is always the same age, always aeons deep. (J)
'Well, the night is young,’ said Albert, sitting back in the sacks.
THE NIGHT IS OLD. THE NIGHT IS ALWAYS OLD. The pigs galloped on. Then, ‘No, it ain’t.’ I’M SORRY? ‘The night isn’t any older than the day, master. It stands to reason. There must have been a day before anyone knew what the night was.’ YES, BUT IT’S MORE DRAMATIC. ‘Oh. Right, then.' (H) 'That’s right,’ said Mr. Saveloy. ‘They’ve had a lifetime’s experience of not dying. They’ve become very good at it.' (IT)
'I was saying,’ he said loudly, ‘that we didn’t know the meaning of the word “sex” when we were young.’
‘That’s true. That’s very true,’ said Poons. He stared reflectively at the flames. ‘Did we ever, mm, find out, do you remember?' (MP) 'The trouble with being this old, you know, is that being young is so far away from me now that it seems sometimes that it happened to someone else.' (W)
... although an elderly man probably has a lot less future than a man of twenty, he’s far more careful of it ... (GP)
'I wouldn’t do that if I were you, old chap,’ said the Senior Wrangler. ‘You don’t know where it might take you.’
‘Don’t care,’ said the Dean. He still didn’t take his eyes of the thing. ‘I mean, it’s not of this world,’said the Senior Wrangler. ‘I’ve been of this world for more than seventy years,’said the Dean, ‘and it is extremely boring.' (SM) 'No treasure,’said Cohen. ‘Spent it all. Drank it all. Gave it all away. Lost it.’
‘You should have saved some for your old age.’ ‘Never thought I’d have an old age.' (TB) ... inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. (MP)
Spiked iron balls, broadswords and large heavy sticks with nails in were generally considered pretty fearsome weapons,
but they were nothing at all compared to twenty years suddenly applied with considerable force to the back of the head. (S) 'You know, Hwel, I reckon responsible behaviour is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.' (WS)
'I didn’t have white hair in those days,’ said Granny.
‘Everything was a different colour in those days.’ ‘That’s true.’ ‘It didn’t rain so much in the summer time.’ ‘The sunsets were redder.’ ‘There were more old people. The world was full of them,’ said the wizard. ‘Yes, I know. And now it’s full of young people. Funny, really. I mean, you’d expect it to be the other way round.' (ER) 'Mr Weavall is very short-sighted, but he sees better in the past.' (HFS)
'Modern,’said Granny Weatherwax, with a sniff. ‘When I was a gel, we had a lump of wax and a couple of pins and had to be content. We had to make our own enchantment in them days.’
‘Ah, well, we’ve all passed a lot of water since then,’said Nanny Ogg sagely. (WS) |
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