What’s a philosopher?[said Brutha.]Someone who’s bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting.[said a voice in his head.]
What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
What heroes like best is themselves.
What he didn’t like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.
What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
Weapons got you killed, often because you were holding one.
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?
We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. It saves time.
We live and learn, or perhaps more importantly, we learn and live.[Vimes thought]
Uncertainty is always uncertain, but the difficulty with people who rely on systems is that they begin to believe that nearly everything is in some way a system and therefore, sooner or later, they become bureaucrats.
Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.
