. . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . .

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.-Death

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things

Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.

No one can whistle a symphony.

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

I get pretty dark sometimes, pretty bleak. But that passes.

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.