Paraphrased Quotes

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same - with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

So many things to see, people to do.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.

When a man plans, a woman laughs.