Synonym Quotes

62 quotes by 59 authors

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach
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… — Henry Adams
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. — John Barrymore
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior. — Gary Bauer
For me, habit is just a synonym for death. — Juliette Binoche
Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I… — David Bowie
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… — Swami Vivekananda
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… — Tim Ferriss
Love is our highest word and the synonym for God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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… — David Steindl-Rast
Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. — John Lyman Chatfield
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… — Stephen King
The measure Â of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of… — Bruce Lee
I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what… — Donna Fargo
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty. — Robert Aris Willmott
Violation is a synonym for intercourse. — Andrea Dworkin
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers… — Christian Wiman
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success. — Philip Guedalla
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium. — Jon Ronson

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