Tuesday April 23, 2013
Bursting with wit
HERE are more examples of the delicious wit found in chiasmus.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling. (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary)
I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.” (Simone Weil [1909-43], French philosopher and mystic)
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
(Peter de Vries)
Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly opposite – the reason we have so much is simply because we discard things so readily. (Alfred P. Solan)
But many that are first, shall be last; and the last, shall be first. (Jesus, the Bible, Matthew 7:6)
It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. (Abraham Lincoln)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill)
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