Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

After the stampede the artist Three Solid Frogs got to his feet, retrieved his brush from his nostril, pulled his easel out of a tree, and tried to think placid thoughts.

Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

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One of Hex's most common statements.

'Luck is my middle name,' said Rincewind, indistinctly. 'Mind you, my first name is Bad.'

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

'...stercus, stercus, stercus, moriturus sum...'
'oh excrement, oh excrement, oh excrement, I'm going to die'... or words to that effect.

The Emperor had all the qualifications for a corpse except, as it were, the most vital one.

"I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting 'Forward, brave comrades!' you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!"
Rincewind gives a speech on the value of cynicism as a survival trait.

Many an ancient lord's last words had been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'
Magic armour is not always all it's cracked up to be.

"I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!"
"What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons.
"A tautology," said the Dean.
The Dean tends to take a rather jaundiced view of life.

There were a large number of ranks in the armies of the Empire, and many of them were untranslatable. Three Pink Pig and Five White Fang were, loosely speaking, privates, and not just because they were pale, vulnerable and inclined to curl up and hide when danger threatened.

"Good grief, how can you live with a philosophy like that?"
Rincewind took a deep breath. "Continuously!"

He could also consider where he was running to as well, but an experienced coward never bothered with the to when the from held such fascination.
The world according to Rincewind.

Rincewind had always assumed that the purpose of running away was to be able to run away another day.

From; that was the most important factor in any mindless escape. You were always running from. To could look after itself.
More of the world according to Rincewind.

"...I was very interested in Auriental studies."
[ footnote: The Ankh-Morpork name for the Counterweight Continent and it's nearby islands. It means 'place where the gold comes from'.]

The Agatean word for 'foreigner' is the same as the word for 'ghost', and only one brush stroke away from the word for 'victim'.
To most Agateans, xenophobia is a normal state of mind.

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