When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. — Anatole France
Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations. — Bob Dylan
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot — Mark Twain
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. — Vincent Van Gogh
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. — Janet Flanner
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. — Bertrand Russell
Take these words home and think it through;
Or the next rhyme I write might be about you. — Prodigy
Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. — Arthur Bryant
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. — Noam Chomsky
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. — George Orwell
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman
Short Paraphrase Quotes
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. — Mother Teresa
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. — Sigmund Freud
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. — Mother Teresa
I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.' — David Dreman
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. — Susan Sontag
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny
I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little. — Luis Federico Leloir
To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like. — Bill Maher
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Ways To Paraphrase Quotes
Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . . — Ibn Ata Allah
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.' — Stephen Fry
The way [Donald Trump] is dealing with this now is to say (paraphrasing), "I don't want these A-listers here. I'm not asking these people to perform." — Rush Limbaugh
All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down. — Hugh Walpole
never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased — Thomas Jefferson
The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on. — Kurt Vonnegut
The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature). — Lao Tzu
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead. — Mother Teresa
June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible. — Audre Lorde
There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.' — Eckhart Tolle
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. — Jon Krakauer
Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds? — Zhuangzi
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase) — Giordano Bruno
To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how; but 80 percent is knowing why. If we gather a set of strong enough reasons to change, we can change in a minute something we've failed to change for years. — Tony Robbins
In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child. — Maria Montessori
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure. — Mark Van Doren
Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge. — Sayings
More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...' — Neil Peart
Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales. — Lloyd Alexander
Ignorance is...voluntary... (Paraphrased) — Nicholas Ling
To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. — W. H. Auden
We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the Bible. The Word of God is being rewritten, watered down, illustrated, and dramatized in order to cater to the taste of the carnal mind. That only leads further into the wilderness of doubt and confusion. — Dave Hunt
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. — Bruce Feirstein
To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. — John D. Voelker
The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction. — Douglas Hofstadter
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. — Naguib Mahfouz
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. — Ronald Reagan
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me. — Walter Koenig
There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better. — Mary Steenburgen
On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country. — Edward Norton
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ. — Kenneth Rexroth
"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. — Macklemore
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach. — Lawrence Durrell
I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don’t want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is. — Howard Zinn
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer
Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying "My party, right or wrong" is like saying "My Kennedy, drunk or sober." Credibility is earned, and standing up and saying "Fie!" now and then reinforces your truthfulness. — James Lileks
Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase. — David Lodge
The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase. — Vladimir Nabokov
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