When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of safety and caution in potentially dangerous situations.
Terry Pratchett's quote serves as a metaphorical reminder that safety should always be a priority, especially when dealing with objects or situations that can pose risks. It implies that when safety measures are not in place, even tools or circumstances that might seem helpful can become harmful, highlighting the need for vigilance and precaution.
In practice
A motivational speech on the importance of safety in the workplace.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
You have to be odd to be number one.
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