User:Sinthorion/QuoteTerryPratchett

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one"

- Terry Pratchett "Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it"

- Terry Pratchett "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"

- Terry Pratchett "the truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head"

- Terry Pratchett "Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life"

- Terry Pratchett "Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time"

- Terry Pratchett "In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this"

- Terry Pratchett "I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did"

- Terry Pratchett "It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life"

- Terry Pratchett "Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages"

- Terry Pratchett "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

- Terry Pratchett "Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind"

- Terry Pratchett "Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces"

- Terry Pratchett "The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp"

- Terry Pratchett "Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people"

- Terry Pratchett "It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done"

- Terry Pratchett "Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom"

- Terry Pratchett "Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry"

- Terry Pratchett "Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom"

- Terry Pratchett "The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."

- Terry Pratchett "It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it"

- Terry Pratchett "People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it"

- Terry Pratchett "I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel"

- Terry Pratchett "If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life"

- Terry Pratchett "Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can."

- Terry Pratchett "The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it"

- Terry Pratchett "It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done"

- Terry Pratchett "There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this"

- Terry Pratchett "The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks"

- Terry Pratchett "If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story"

- Terry Pratchett "Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out"

- Terry Pratchett "Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along"

- Terry Pratchett "Pets are always a help in times of stress. And in times of starvation, too, o'course"

- Terry Pratchett "Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to"

- Terry Pratchett "The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it"

- Terry Pratchett "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance"

- Terry Pratchett "Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you"

- Terry Pratchett "It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's"

- Terry Pratchett "I commend my soul to any God that can find it"

- Terry Pratchett "So much universe, and so little time"

- Terry Pratchett