Quotes from the "Discworld" novels
fortune-discworld is a collection of quotes from the “Discworld” novels by Terry Pratchett
To install these fortunes, copy the .dat file to your fortunes directory (possibly /usr/games/lib/fortunes). To use it, simply type: fortune discworld
Download: fortune-discworld.tgz
Guillaume Rousse maintains a Mandrake package of this fortune collection at the Penguin Liberation Front.
On the fifth day the Governor of the town called all the tribal chieftains
to an audience in the market square, to hear their grievances. He didn't
always do anything about them, but at least they got *heard*, and he nodded
a lot, and everyone felt better about it at least until they got home. This
is politics.
-- Carpet politics are very similar to Discworld politics
(Terry Pratchett, The Carpet People)
to an audience in the market square, to hear their grievances. He didn't
always do anything about them, but at least they got *heard*, and he nodded
a lot, and everyone felt better about it at least until they got home. This
is politics.
-- Carpet politics are very similar to Discworld politics
(Terry Pratchett, The Carpet People)