“Meditation nourishes the mind.”

“I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.”

“Good music will make you forget all your misery.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they say.""What?" Vimes' sudden rage was like a thunderclap. "Who says that? When has that ever been t...”

“What must I say, that you dont know on your own?”

“Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!”