{"id":33736,"date":"2015-12-20T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33736"},"modified":"2015-12-13T08:11:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T13:11:42","slug":"qotd-more-selected-terry-pratchett-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/qotd-more-selected-terry-pratchett-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: More selected Terry Pratchett quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>21<\/strong> It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you&#8217;re attempting can&#8217;t be done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22<\/strong> Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23<\/strong> Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying &#8216;End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH&#8217;, the paint wouldn&#8217;t even have time to dry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24<\/strong> Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25<\/strong> Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: &#8216;Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>26<\/strong> The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it\u2019s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. \u2014 from <em>Moving Pictures<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27<\/strong> It\u2019s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren\u2019t doing it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28<\/strong> People don&#8217;t alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29<\/strong> I\u2019d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30<\/strong> If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn\u2019t as cynical as real life.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Martin Chilton for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/books\/authors\/terry-pratchett-best-quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, 2015-08-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you&#8217;re attempting can&#8217;t be done. 22 Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. 23 Some humans would do anything to see if it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57,41],"tags":[632],"class_list":["post-33736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-terrypratchett"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8M8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33737,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33736\/revisions\/33737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}