Just Crumbs
Anybody can be charming if they don`t mind faking it.
There`s no fun where there`s no challenge.
You don`t actually have to take an IQ test to become a reporter.
Jeff Lindsay
In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find.
There`s nothing more terrible than someone out to do the world a favour.
Wizards are good at getting you out of the sort of trouble that only wizards can get you into.
Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn`t mean they`re true.
Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.
Words can be more powerful even than magic.
When you break rules, break 'em good and hard.
It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone`s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.
Ghosts can`t rule. You`d never get the crown to stay on. It`d drop through.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
What can`t speak, can`t lie.
What`s the good of asking if you`re not going to listen?
Sometimes, you have to be kind to be cruel.
A king isn`t something you`re good at, it`s something you are.
Going forth is easy. Going back requires an effort of will, because it is much harder.
The prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first.
No-one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We`re always one of Us. It`s Them that do the bad things.
It is well known that any drive to reduce paperwork only results in extra paperwork.
The hated have no reason yo love!
It`s quite easy for people to be jolly decent people when they can afford to hire thoroughly un-decent people.
There needs to be a law, but before there is a law, there has to be a crime!
The law cannot operate retrospectively. If it did, none of us would be safe.
A lot of diplomacy lies in appearing to be a lot more stupid than you are.
When people say "We must move with the times", they really mean "You must do it my way".
It is impossible to keep people out of something that they don`t want to go into.
Ninety per cent of magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
A man with a weapon he doesn`t know how to use is likely to have it shoved where the sun does not shine.
Trouble is always easy to find, when you have enough people looking for it.
People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.
I wish people would not be so careless about what they believe.
Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it.
If the landslide is big enough, even square pebbles will roll.
Too many lies and there`s no truth to go back to.
Terry Pratchett
Трудно быть средним классом в стране, любящей крайности.
Цивилизация развращает тех, кто находится неподалеку, но сам вкушал ее плоды толькo пo телевизору.
Не все ломай что можешь, оставь что-нибудь и детям.
В царство небеснре огородами не прошмыгнешь.
Бог не фраер, правду видит.
Если нехорошо получать деньги за работу, то и работать нехорошо.
Имперский строй не заинтересован ни в чем, кроме самосохранения, а значит, его неизбежно ждет засьой и гибель.
Власть потому и называется властью, что хочет не помогать людям, а владеть ими.
О, эти современные технологии, когда-нибудь они загонят нас в каменный век!
Власть первична, а все мы существуем до тех пор, пока наша жизнь сообразна с требованиями власти.
Святослав Логинов
Come the End of the World, the nice and the wise perish first. The nice are trampled down by those they try to save. The wise know there`s no point in surviving.
Greitai nebereikės mokytis nei skaičiuot, nei grot, nei paišyt – viską darys kompiuteriai. Užtat batai bus be raištelių – užrišti batraiščių kompiuteris nemoka.
Jeigu “be Viešpaties valios net plaukas nuo galvos nenukris” – kam tada papamobilis su nepramušamais stiklais?
Iš tikro ateisto nepadarysi satanisto.
You cannot make a satanist out of a true atheist.
Jei valdžioj savas nemokša – tai jam priešai trukdo dirbti, jei svetimas – tai piktybinis.
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