A Quote by Marilyn vos Savant

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
American - Writer
Born: August 11, 1946

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Josh Jenkins

On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

Maira Kalman

The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.

Hyman Rickover

A pencil has eraser because it make mistake.

The Iron Sheik

My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser

George Watsky

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

Marty Neumeier

One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

John Cage

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.

Mother Teresa

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Robert Breault

Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.

Chris Kilham

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

Dorothy Parker

I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.

Mitch Albom

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Mother Teresa

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.