Humour Quote by Terry Pratchett Download Open image ““The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things”” — Terry Pratchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humour Inspirational Philosophy of Mind Silly things Society
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter whether our certain thought or feeling or behavior is reasonable or not, what we must be aware of is, whether it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“You can think all you can but don't publicize all your thoughts” — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
“Humans should not think too much. Too much thinking creates short actions. Thinking far creates protection.” — Rema Thankappan Copy Share Image
“The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Society at large is staggeringly obtuse. If one simply looks to others for their opinions, they lose the ability to think critically for themselves.… — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
“So few people are really aware of their thoughts. Their minds run all over the place without their permission, and they go along for… — Thomas M. Sterner Copy Share Image
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not entirely absurd; indeed in view of the… — A.J. Aaron Copy Share Image
“The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this -… — Stevenson Willis Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“law that stated you didn't advertise any event you hadn't attended, any place you'd never been, or any band you didn't really listen to.” — Mhairi McFarlane Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“What if," replied Inspector Fry in the same maddeningly curteous tone, "we were all to construct daisy chains and drape them so as to… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Holy shit," somebody muttered in the dark. "A virgin," sputtered another. "I didn't know they still made them." "He just did.” — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
“True, science has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the moon, and yet when a man of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“John, let me make one thing clear,” Jim said, cutting me off in his most stern, evangelical voice. “Every man is blessed with his… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Life is like yoga; the only way you can enjoy it is by relaxing into any position you happen to find yourself in.” — Jon Wakeham Copy Share Image