Fancy Word For Sayings

#1. Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

Gene Perret

#2. When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

Hannah More

#3. If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

Gautama Buddha

#4. Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Joseph Joubert

#5. 'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Isaac Newton

#6. I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Jodie Foster

#7. Tolerance is just a fancy word for ignoring a fascist ideology. Acceptance is the only way.

Jessica Jung

#8. [The imagination] ... inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and ... a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.

Marsilio Ficino

#9. And strategy is just a fancy word for a special kind of common sense, the ability to see options, to make them where there were none. It's not about knowing the rules. It's about knowing how to break them.

V.E Schwab

#10. Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that happened to me.

Craig Ferguson

#11. Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.

David Ogilvy

#12. Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Elsa Maxwell

#13. Make sure you marry a plain man, Tessa. They won't stray, and they'll never have power over you.

Richelle Mead

#14. I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

Scott Adams

#15. Chivalry is not just a fancy word with a neat meaning; it's a way of life.

Vaughn Ripley

#16. A word is an abstract image, the imaginary thing, or, in so far as everything is ultimately an object of the thinking power, it is the imagined thought: hence men, when they know the word, the name for a thing, fancy that they know the thing also.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#17. What bothers me is that health professionals give fancy names to conditions or learning difficulties that will irritate the patients; like OCD not being in alphabetical order, putting an 'S' in 'lisp,' and making dyslexia a word that no one can spell. It's just mean.

Suzanne Wright

#18. The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it's not true - French food isn't just rich. The word "healthy" doesn't exist in French. We have many, many words, but not that one. To me, healthy means paying close attention to feeding people.

Alain Ducasse

#19. I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

John Searle

#20. Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love.

Dennis Lehane

#21. Author' is just a fancy word for Schizophrenic people with good writing skills and cash.

Testy McTesterson

#22. Yes, word had gotten around about my amusing little defeathering trick (note: made the chicken naked). Apparently we couldn't just eat the poor thing and be done with it. Apparently we had to knit cunning lil' sweaters for it so it could squawk around the yard, feeling fancy.

Cate Tiernan

#23. And, look, I'm sorry if I have blond hair and blue eyes and my boyfriend looks like a vampire. What do you want me to do about it?

Evan Rachel Wood

#24. ...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...

Cecelia Ahern

#25. Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

Michael Pollan

#26. I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Golda Meir

#27. Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.

Matt Bondurant

#28. I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour.

Charlotte Eriksson

#29. I talk about the three R's, that jobs equals three R's: Repeal Obamacare. Reform our tax-and-spend policies to make us the most competitive in the world. And relight America with American energy.

Keith Rothfus

#30. It's political, sir. Apparently he wants a return to the values and traditions that made the city great, sir."
"Does he _know_ what those values and traditions _were_?" said Vimes, aghast.

Terry Pratchett

#31. Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who can not be handled by his parents any more.

Thabang Gideon Magaola