Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
Terry pratchett
Date: April 29, 2008
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.
An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"
If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.
"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.