Humor Quote by Jim Butcher — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”

“That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.”

“It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.”

“In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.”

“The man once wrote:”

“If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.”

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

“Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?”

“I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?”

“You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes.”

“No good deed goes unpunished.”