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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.

The thing between Death's triumphant digits was a fly from the dawn of
time. It was the fly in the primordial soup. It had bred on mammoth
turds. It wasn't a fly that bangs on window panes, it was a fly that
drills through walls.
-- Death goes fishing
(Terry Pratchett, Mort)