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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

  Russell Baker

  Determined, Classic, Narcotics

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• With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Memories, Secret, Ignorant

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• Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Merit, Possessiveness

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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• At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

  Benjamin Graham

  Heart, Investing, Uncertainty

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.212, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

  John Galsworthy

  Mean, Trials, Wealth

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7654, Delphi Classics

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• Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.

  Daniel Guerin

  Men, Liberty, Haste

  Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr

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• Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

  Washington Allston

  Voters, Reputation, Popularity

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• Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Night, Men, Light

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• Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

  John Muir

  Real, Imagination, Fantasy

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What 'natural' has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is 'pure' and 'safe' and 'benign'. But the use of 'natural' as a synonym for 'good' is almost certainly a product of our profound alienation from the natural world.

  Eula Biss

  Powerful, Mean, Intelligent

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