Paraphrased Quotes
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
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.
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.
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.
It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.
Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
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.
Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.
Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.
You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.
never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
Do you hate people?”“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.