#paraphrase

Atlas smirked. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#paraphrased #unintentional-humor #humor

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

— Reduced Shakespeare Company

#paraphrased #romeo-and-juliet #shakespeare #humor

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#paraphrased #stories #humor

So many things to see, people to do. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #humor

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come ↗

— Mario Puzo

#paraphrased #simile #life

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #simile #simile

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. ↗

— Bruce Feirstein

#austen #fortune #jane #jane austen #man

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#paraphrased #humor

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there ↗

— George Harrison

#paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll #life

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

— Terry Pratchett

#men