Monday, December 02, 2013

Quote

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

- Terry Pratchett

6 comments:

Peculiar said...

Didn't know you were a Pratchett fan, Reid.

Karen Myers said...

All thinking people are Pratchett fans.

Reid Farmer said...

I can't count myself a fan, I have read very little of his and that so long ago I can't remember the titles. I couldn't resist this quote when I stumbled on it, though.

Karen, can you recommend some titles for me? I'd love to join the ranks of the thinking

Peculiar said...

If you want something seasonally apt, Reid, I like both Hogfather and Wintersmith quite a bit.

Gil said...

"Outside a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." Marx (Groucho)

Reid Farmer said...

Don't get me started on Marxist quotes:

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know. Then we tried to remove the tusks, but they were embedded in so firmly, we couldn't budge them. Of course in Alabama, the Tuscaloosa."

"Africa is God's Country - and He can have it!"

Groucho as Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding, famous African Explorer