Following is our list of the most famous thesaurus quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational thesaurus quotes. Hopefully, these thesaurus quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your thesaurus knowledge!
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. — Baltasar Gracian
Use the right word, not its second cousin. — Mark Twain
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson
You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide. — Roddy Piper
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.' — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel. — John Mayer
Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them. — Tim McIlrath
Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. — Julio Cortazar
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson
Too many words are lit for a beast of burden. — Yunus Emre
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. — Booker T. Washington
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef. — Julius Caesar
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense. — Wale
Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus. — Peter McWilliams
Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate? — Francis Chan
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. — Stephen King
I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus. — Demetri Martin
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it. — Rumer Godden
You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine. — Margaret Atwood
You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena. — Jon Stewart
My son's always showing me pictures of dinosaurs and asking me what their names are. I dont know so I make stuff up: That son is a thesaurus. — Craig Ferguson
As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software. — Hans Rosling
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment. — Amy Tan
There are tools that help sharpen freestyle skills like having a diverse vernacular, some sense of music theory, being outspoken, phrasing, spacing, cross word puzzles, thesauruses, the ability to expand on an issue and embellish that with more descriptive terminology. — Myka 9
I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least amount of words possible and I respect that. — Rude Jude
What I need is an Urban Thesaurus. I know what money is what I need is 600 different ways to say it. — Gary Gulman
Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards. — Toni Morrison
I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday. — Maya Angelou
I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that. — Tinie Tempah
My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society. — Ken Cuccinelli
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. — Dorothy Fields
Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—” She broke off, clearly fighting for control of her temper. Tessa had never seen Charlotte’s mouth so firmly set into a hard line. “Would you like a thesaurus?” Will inquired. “You seem to be running out of words. — Cassandra Clare
Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her.... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day. — Darynda Jones
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