‘Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.’ (ISWM)
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‘A famous last stand, sir?’ said Jackrum. He spat expertly into the fire in the tumbledown hearth. ‘To hell with them, sir. That’s just a way of dyin’ famous!’ (MR)
‘There is only three things you need to remember, which are, viz: one obey orders two give it to the enemy good and hard three don’t die.’ (MR)
‘Special skills?’
‘Stayin’ alive, corporal, come what may.’ (MR) ‘Living this long’s not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.’ (W)
He stifled the urge to look around. Korodore has schooled him unmercifully in assassination drill. Know who was your assassin was small reward for being assassinated. Korodore said, ‘The price of curiosity is a terminal experience.’ (DSS)
... good manners started to happen as soon as all the mammoths were killed off and there was no piece of food big enough for everyone to eat at the same time. (NOC)
A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times. (NW)
'We've always been ready to die,' said Caleb the Ripper.
'That's why we've lived such a long time,' said Boy Willie. (LH) '... you know that religion that thinks that whirling around in circles is a form of prayer?'
'Oh, yes. The Hurtling Whirlers of Klatch.' 'Mine is like that, only we go more in ... straight lines. Yes. That's it. Speed is a sacrament.' 'You believe it gives you some sort of eternal life?' 'Not eternal, as such. More ... well, just more really. More life.' (LH) 'If Cohen was easy to kill, people would have done it a long time ago.' (LH)
'Are you a friend of his?'
'Well, we've met a couple of times and he didn't kill me,' said Rincewind. 'That probably counts as a a "yes".' (LH) Oh, I never stop to find out why people are chasing me, sir. I never look behind either. That'd be rather silly, sir.' (LH)
'... what mouse don't we want to be like?' Darktan demanded.
'We don't want to be like the first mouse!' shouted the rats. 'Right! What mouse do we want to be like?' 'The second mouse, Darktan!' said the rats, who'd had this lesson dinned into them many times. 'Right! And why do we want to be like the second mouse?' 'Because the second mouse gets the cheese, Darktan!' (AM) And the ones that survived went on to survive again, because surviving is a matter of practice. (FE)
... if things went all pear-shaped in a hurry, one small dog had all the survival chances of a chocolate kettle on a very hot stove. (FE)
'... the world is rather bad and extremely difficult and all you can do is the best you can.' (Do)
He has survived by never giving up and never playing fair (PP)
... they lived peacefully and avoided having much to do with history, which tends to get people killed. (CP)
When he was a boy, Ponder Stibbons had imagined that wizards would be powerful democrats-gods able to change the whole world at the flick of a finger, and then he'd grown up and found that they were tiresome old men who worries about the state of their feet and, in harm's way, would even bicker about the origin of the phrase 'in harm's way'.
It had never struck him that evolution works in all kinds of ways. There were still quite deep scars in old buildings that showed what happened when you had the other kind of wizard. (LC) When a shark is coming at you, you are already dead, old Nawi had said, and since you were already dead, then anything was worth trying ... (N)
... a grandfather bird who had also decided he was dead and had pecked his foot to make sure, hopped away hurriedly. It didn't go far away, though, in case he died after all. In the grandfather bird's experience, everything died if you watched it for long enough. (N)
Mau was good at reading important things. He could read the sea, the weather, the tracks of animals, tattoos and the night sky. (N)
'I don't think you can fight a whole universe, sir!'
'It's the prerogative of every life form, Mr Stibbons!' (DW) Cunning in younger wizards is not automatically applauded in their elders. (DW)
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