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To mention Boston we use 'Boston' or a synonym, and to mention 'Boston' we use ' 'Boston' ' or a synonym. ' 'Boston' ' contains six letters and just one pair of quotation marks; 'Boston' contains six letters and no quotation marks; and Boston contains some 800,000 people. Willard Van Orman Quine
I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous. Jane Austen
Jon Ronson quote: "Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its..."
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium. Jon Ronson
Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing. Truman Capote
George Carlin quote: "Is there another word for synonym?"
Is there another word for synonym? George Carlin
Vanity and pride are different things, though the two words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we have others think of us. Jane Austen
Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself. Oswald Spengler
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty! John Muir
Baltasar Gracian quote: "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one."
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. Baltasar Gracian
Anne Rice quote: "Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes..."
Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. Anne Rice
You think—I dare say that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it We’re destroying words—scores of them hundreds of them every day. It’s a beautiful thing the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms there are also the antonyms. George Orwell
When someone uses the phrase ‘the prick one’, and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word ‘metaphorically’, you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are even entitled to wonder whether you should know her at all. Nick Hornby
Terry McMillan quote: "Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look..."
Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous. Terry McMillan
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an..."
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. Jorge Luis Borges
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation. Charlotte Bronte

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