Quoted in [10.1057/9781137401281_4]
“Everything has been said but not everyone has said it.”
Morris Udall (1922–1998) American politician
At a committee hearing. Quoted multiple times by Harry Reid, e.g. Congressional Record Vol. 147, No. 83 https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2001/6/14/senate-section/article/S6239-7
“In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.”
Nullumst iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.
Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.
Prologue, Line 41.
Variant translation: Nothing has yet been said that’s not been said before.
Eunuchus
“It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.”
Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage
Source: The Pilgrimage
“When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Quand une chose a été dite et bien dite, n'ayez aucun scrupule, prenez-la, copiez.
As quoted in Anatole France en pantoufles by Jean-Jacques Brousson (1924); published in English as Anatole France Himself: A Boswellian Record by His Secretary, Jean-Jacques Brousson (1925), trans. John Pollock [Read Books, 2007, ISBN 1-406-75172-3], p. 56
“All that needs to be said has already been said, but I’m going to say it again.”
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2022, May 2022, Remarks By President Biden on the Affordable Connectivity Program
“Truth," it has been said, "is the first casualty of war.”
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden (1864–1937) British politician
Introduction to Truth and the War, by E. D. Morel. London, July 1916. p. ix books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=gQFIAAAAIAAJ&q=casualty. p. xiii in the 3rd edition 1918 archive.org http://www.archive.org/stream/truthwar00more#page/n17/mode/2up (cf. Aeschylus#Misattributed) <br class="br">Hiram Johnson is often credited with this statement, or something similar. However, Snowden's use appears to have predated those of Johnson while being more consistent with the now-common, "Truth is the first casualty of war."
“It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.”
Joan Crawford (1904–1977) American actress
Interview, New York Times (1972)
“There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book II, chapter LVIII, section 119
Cf. René Descartes' "On ne sauroit rien imaginer de si étranger et si peu croyable, qu'il n'ait été dit par quelqu'un des philosophes [One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another]" (Le Discours de la Méthode, Pt. 2)
De Divinatione – On Divination (44 BC)
Original: (la) Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
