Quotes & Sayings About Pencils And Erasers

No one is perfect ... that's why pencils have erasers. — Wolfgang Riebe

It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils. — Rick Barnett

I have rewritten - often several times - every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers. — Vladimir Nabokov

Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes? — Nellie L. McClung

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers ... and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers. — Isaac Asimov

The Confederate government cupboards were practically bare: in recent months the purchasing orders for its agent James Bulloch in Liverpool had broadened from military supplies to include such ordinary items as "one dozen erasers," "two dozen memorandum books of different sizes, and 12 dozen best lead pencils. — Anonymous