'... wise men do what the times demand.' (LF)
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'Flexible? Flexible? My mind’s got so flexible I could pull it out of my ears and tie it under my chin!’ snapped Gurder. (Wings)
It wasn’t that they didn’t take an interest in the world around them. On the contrary, they had a deep, personal and passionate involvement in it, but instead of asking, ‘Why are we here?’they asked, ‘Is it going to rain before the harvest?’
A philosopher might have deplored this lack of mental ambition, but only if he was really certain about where his next meal was coming from. (CJ) 'That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?' (H)
Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards – not ‘not doing magic’ because they couldn’t do magic, but not doing magic when they could and didn’t. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you know how easy it is. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn’t been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again. (GP)
'Are we not all, in some way, looking for our cow?' (WMC)
,AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON!’ which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this. (HFS)
'In life, as in breakfast cereal, it is always best to read the instructions on the box,’ said Lu-Tze. (TOT)
Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity’s place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists. (H)
The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practise before doing it for real. (P)
She's totally around the bend. But perhaps she gets a better view from there. (JB)
Mad is a word used by people who've either got no senses or several more than most other people. (JD)
'There are, some like to suggest, an infinite number of universes in order to allow everything that may happen a place to
happen in. This is of course nonsense, which we entertain only because we believe words are the same as reality. Now, however, I can prove my point, since in such an infinity of worlds there would have to be one where I would applaud your recent action and, let me assure you, sir, infinity is not that big!' (MM) That was always the dream, wasn’t it? ‘I wish I’d known then what I know now’? But when you got older you found out that you now wasn’t the you then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.
A much better dream, one that’d ensure sounder sleep, was not to know now what you didn’t know then. (NW) Ignorant: a state of not knowing what a pronoun is, or how to find the square root of 27.4, and merely knowing childish
and useless things like which of the seventy almost identical-looking species of the purple sea snake are the deadly ones, how to treat the poisonous pith of the Sago-sago tree to make a nourishing gruel, how to foretell the weather by the movements of the tree-climbing Burglar Crab, how to navigate across a thousand miles of featureless ocean by means of a piece of string and a small clay model of your grandfather, how to get essential vitamins from the liver of the ferocious Ice Bear, and other such trivial matters. It’s a strange thing that when everyone becomes educated, everyone knows about the pronoun but no one knows about the Sago-sago. (H) And Sergeant Colon once again knew a secret about bravery. It was arguable a kind of enhanced cowardice – the knowledge that while death may await you if you advance it will be a picnic compared to the certain living hell that awaits should you retreat. (J)
'We're her godmothers,’said Granny.
‘That’s right,’ said Nanny Ogg. ‘We’ve got a wand too,’ said Magrat. ‘But you hate godmothers, Mistress Weatherwax,’ said Mrs Gogol. ‘We’re the other kind,’ said Granny. ‘We’re the kind that give people what they know they really need, not what we think they ought to want.' (WA) When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions. (P)
'No father ever calls his boy ‘son’ unless he’s about to impart wisdom. Well-known fact.' (TB)
'You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.' (MM)
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