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Man Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.
- If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then…
- Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!
- Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had…
- They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
- Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in…
- 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…
- What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?
- Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very…
- Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
- I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want…
- No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh,…
- Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.
- Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
- What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said,…
- Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.
- Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He was probably a…
- I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o'…
- Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician…
- There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in…
- Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the…
- The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,…
- Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT…
- Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.
- There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle