Author: Terry Pratchett Page 2

‘Pessimist’ is a word used by optimists to describe someone who sees the world for what it really is.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Communication Language Life

He] had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Intelligence Mind

It’s the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Sex

In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Places Time

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Intelligence People Things

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Communication Conflict Reading/Writing

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Animals

Only in our dreams are we free; the rest of the time we need wages.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Life Money

If life was a party, he wasn’t even in the kitchen.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Insults Life

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Characteristics