Morporkians Quotes & Sayings

By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will." — Abraham Lincoln

Rats had featured largely in the history of Ankh-Morpork. Shortly before the Patrician came to power there was a terrible plague of rats. The city council countered it by offering twenty pence for every rat tail. This did, for a week or two, reduce the number of rats - and then people were suddenly queing up with tails, the city treasury was being drained, and no one seemed to be doing much work. And there still seemed to be a lot of rats around. Lord Vetinari had listened carefully while the problem was explained, and had solved the thing with one memorable phrase which said a lot about him, about the folly of bounty offers, and about the natural instinct of Ankh-Morporkians in any situation involving money: Tax the rat farms. — Terry Pratchett

I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present. — Christopher Owens

Build a relationship with your inner self, you will never feel alone. — Debasish Mridha

No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have! — Evel Knievel

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love. — Margaret Halsey

The Conquest of Happiness — Timothy Ferriss

For Jesus, compassion was more than a quality of God and an individual virtue: it was a social paradigm, the core value for life in community. To put it boldly: compassion for Jesus was political. — Marcus J. Borg

The wise are greatly revered,
the righteous are exceedingly honored,
and the foolish are repeatedly disgraced. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later. — Lesley Gore

The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you - when there's a loss that will alter your life forever - you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you've touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are. — Tara Brach

Be a truth seeker. Go after it with all your might. Let it seep deep into the marrow of your soul. For it will be the only thing to save you in the end. No savior, no religion, no teacher, no guru can do that. You must do it. It is a lifelong pursuit while on this earth. — Dara Reidyr