Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Ackroyd

I had to paraphrase the paraphrase.

Mason Cooley

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

Richard Howard

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

Charles Buxton

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Ambrose Bierce

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Barbara Pym

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.