Terry Pratchett

Puzzles

• There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. ___ are designed to teach small children this.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Terry Pratchett?

  • → I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don’t accidentally walk through into another dimension.
  • → I invented the cordless extension cord.
  • → There are better things in life than alcohol, but alcohol makes up for not having them.
  • → The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Terry Pratchett.

  • → There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.
  • → If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
  • → Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
  • → The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Terry Pratchett.

  • → The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
  • → Diligence is the mother of good luck.
  • → Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
  • → Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Terry Pratchett. Which one?

  • → Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
  • → A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
  • → Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
  • → There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Terry Pratchett?

  • → Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
  • → If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
  • → If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
  • → They say marriages are made in heaven. But so are thunder and lightning.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Terry Pratchett?

  • → The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
  • → Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
  • → You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
  • → America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Terry Pratchett.

  • → Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one’s mind. When you’re young it’s easy to drift into loyalties and when you announce that you’re a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you’re doing is pounding it in, pounding it in, and you’re gradually ruining your mind.
  • → When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
  • → Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
  • → Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Terry Pratchett. Which one?

  • → Happiness is like a butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp; but if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
  • → Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
  • → A man’s work is from sun to sun but a woman’s work is never done.
  • → Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
  
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• Can you guess which one of these belongs to Terry Pratchett?

  • → Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
  • → Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
  • → Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
  • → No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
  
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