Best 35 quotes in «paraphrased quotes» category

I started out to be honest, with everything on the square. But a man can't fool with the Golden Rule in a crowd that won't play fair. You don't go down with a hard, short fall --you just sort of shuffle along, and loosen your load of the moral code, 'till you can't tell right from wrong.

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.

...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess

I gave you all!" screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan. "And you took your bloody time giving it, too, you senile old fuck," said Regan.

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.

Atlas smirked.

Dune: ...That's disgraceful! Sette: So's your face!

If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world. [Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a fairy in possesion of a good appetite must be in want of pie.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size

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 single man in possession of a good riding crop must be in want of a pair of bare buttocks to trash.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.

It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

Love yourself before you love someone else.

Macon Ethan I lay my head down on his chest and cried because had lived because he had died a dry ocean, a desert of emotion happysad darklight sorrowjoy swept over me, under me i could hear the sound but i could not understand the words and then i realized the sound was me, breaking in one moment i was feeling everything and i was feeling nothing i was shattered, i was saved, i lost everthing, i was given everything else something in me died, something in me was born, i only knew the girl was gone whoever i was now, i would never be her again this is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper claim yourself claim yourself claim yourself claim gratitude fury love despair hope hate first green is gold but nothing green can stay dont try nothing green can stay -Lena Duchannes

Nothing is forever except change.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum.

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

So many things to see, people to do.

The only good human being is a dead one.

The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe

To paraphrase Montaigne—even when you’re sitting on the highest throne in the world, you’re still sitting on your arse.

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

What will be is up to me

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

When a man plans, a woman laughs.

Women should be obscene and not heard.