Paraphrase Quotes

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

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.

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

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

I had to paraphrase the paraphrase.

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.