(About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.
Interpretation
The quote humorously highlights the transition from something dignified to something less respectable.
Terry Pratchett's quote plays with the idea that noble intentions or appearances can lead to unexpected and perhaps less noble outcomes. It uses the clever wordplay between 'Maids of Honor' and 'Tarts' to illustrate the irony of how things may not turn out as originally planned, often with a comedic twist that reflects on human nature and the unpredictability of life.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a cooking class as a light-hearted commentary on the results of a recipe.
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.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
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