Quotes About Synonyms

“I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.”
― Woody Allen

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Meet Mr. Mulliner

“The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark”
― Bennett Madison, Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox

“Einstein's greatest influence was that he continues to inspire so many people to become synonyms for something. Genius is already taken, but a lot of other places and things still need patronymics.”
― Bauvard