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Men 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!
- Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
- That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that…
- 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.
- It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite…
- 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…
- The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.
- 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…
- I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice…
- Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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'…
More Men 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
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle