79 Terry Pratchett Quotes for You to Enjoy

Terry Pratchett

English Author

Born: Apr 28, 1948

Died: Mar 12, 2015

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Related authors: A. A. Milne H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling John Galsworthy Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek

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

Cats Worshipped Ancient Ancient Times Were Times Gods Forgotten

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

Life Day Man Rest Fire Build He His Warm Set

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

Waiting Darkness Light Matter First Faster Finds Wrong Always Got How Than Anything Fast Travels Thinks

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

You Too Late Fate Too Late Out Find Throw He Along Most Queens Chess Been Dice Gods Playing Two Plays

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? Terry Pratchett

Family Getting Older Care Will Older Society Baby Baby Boomers Relationships Backbone Range Boomers Those Run Stay Rely Firing Longer Dementia Readily How Provided Getting Stable Cope Right

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

Pen Sharp Very Than Short Mightier Sword

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. Terry Pratchett

Death Good Prayer Evil Thought Ways Tried Eat About Seemed No-One Good Works Over Until Forces Demon Up Doom Centuries Mankind Shotgun Many Works Fasting

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

Darkness Better Sometimes Light Than Curse

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

Dreams Time Rest Free Our Our Dreams Only Wages Need

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

You Worth Unless Would Someone Something Rather Doing Were Much

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. Terry Pratchett

Life Traffic Lane Fast Fast Lane

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs. Terry Pratchett

Life God Together People Wonderful Baby Earthquake Evolved Would Wreckage Miracle More Had Taken Haiti Annoyed Said Got Been Child Quite Stopped After Monkeys Load Save

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. Terry Pratchett

Best Fruit Problem Language Important Think Universe Telling Perhaps Most Another Understand Trying Via The Most Important Workings Fundamental

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again. Terry Pratchett

Day Me Bible Eyes Every Day Angel Every Back Evolution Would Darwin Rising Rather More Thrilling Take True Make Proved Falling Account Than Again Ape Juvenile Far Us Much Who Flip Monkeys

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

Beginning Nothing In The Beginning Which Exploded

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

People Intelligence Crowd Known Square Root Creature Number

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. Terry Pratchett

Death Good You Tears Believe Everyone Appropriate Say Bit Has-Been Goodbye Know Look Because Around Bed Making Been Left Shop Behind After Loved Loved Ones Grandchildren Them Certain Should Your

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. Terry Pratchett

You Tortoise Give Could Look Trample Mean Them Meaningful

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