Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose. [The more things change, the more they remain the same.]

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Rincewind looked down at him and grinned slowly. It was a wide, manic, and utterly humourless rictus. It was the sort of grin that is normally accompanied by small riverside birds wandering in and out, picking scraps out of the teeth.