Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
Terry Pratchett

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Terry Pratchett

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

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry Pratchett

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."
Terry Pratchett

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Terry Pratchett

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
Terry Pratchett


Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
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

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

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry Pratchett

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
Terry Pratchett

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

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
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

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett