Paraphrase Quotations

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

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.

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

I had to paraphrase the paraphrase.

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

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

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