I've had a lifetime of ought from can to can't (from the first moment in the morning when you can see to the last moment in the evening when you can't

There's no greys, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, Young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is.

She'd never, ever asked for anything in return. And the trouble with not asking for anything in return was that sometimes you didn't get it.

a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits

As has been pointed out earlier in the Diskworld chronicles, entire agricultural economies have been based on the lifting power of little old ladies in black dresses

Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is

Down, boy! Couchant! I said couchant! No! Not rampant!

Carrot started to clap.It wasn't the clap used by middlings to encourage underlings to applaud overlings. It had genuine enthusiasm behind it which was, somehow, worse.

... et la face du bibliothécaire apparut comme une noix de coco matinale.Oook !