Synonym Quotes

• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

  Burt Bacharach

  Funny, Writing, Sarcasm

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Writing, Use, Spells

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• For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

  Juliette Binoche

  Death, Habit

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• Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

  Dan Brown

  Google, Research

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.235, Random House

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• Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

  Philip Guedalla

  Greatness, Great Success, Courteous

  Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”

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• I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Marriage, Thinking

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• In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.

  Ben Hecht

  Movie, Art, Adventure

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• Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Violation, Intercourse

  1987 Intercourse,'Occupation/Collaboration'.

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• To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Atheism, World, Language

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

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• The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent we will have to digest the definition of real development: development is synonymous with culture. When we sublimate nature in a way that we achieve peace, happiness, prosperity and, ultimately, fulfilment along with satisfying our basic needs, we march towards culture.

  Sunderlal Bahuguna

  Relationship, Happiness, Peace

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• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Stars, Night

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.

  Osamu Dazai

  Milk, Poetic, Wells

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.143, New Directions Publishing

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• We are synonyms but not the same.

  Tahereh Mafi

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• Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

  Alfred de Musset

  Discovery, Disgrace

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• Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

  Stephen King

  Halloween, Keys, Awful

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.315, Anchor

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• The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Mean, Acceptance, Science

  "God and Evolution". The New York Times, February 26, 1922.

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• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dream, Jesus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.30, editionNEXT.com

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• In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet, Stories

  Life magazine, p. 98, June 11, 1965.

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• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"

  Tim Ferriss

  Live Life, Passion, Circles

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• Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Love Is, Effort

  "The Art Of Successful Living".

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• There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a celebration of the universal give-and-take of life, a limitless yes to belonging. Can our world survive without gratefulness? Whatever the answer, one thing is certain: to say an unconditional yes to the mutual belonging of all beings will make this a more joyful world. This is the reason why Yes is my favorite synonym for God.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Grateful, Our World

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• Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.

  John Lyman Chatfield

  Luck, Majority, Judgment

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• The measure  of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Mma, Moral

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.65, Tuttle Publishing

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• What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Change, Believe, Risk

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• I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

  Henry Adams

  Art, Mean, Literature

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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