The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.