Mankind must put an end to war, or war will
put an end to mankind. - – John F. Kennedy
It’s not always easy to be clever, but is it ever clever to be easy?
Winners never quit; and quitters never win. – unknown
It’s not always nice to be right, but is it ever not right to be nice?
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. - Samuel Johnson
General Lee never surrendered his honor and the nation has always honored his surrender.
It starts when you sink in his arms and ends
with your arms in his sink. - unknown
Think it over, but don’t over-think it.
Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? - Richard Lederer
It had been such a long spell since she had to spell such a long word.
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. – Ben Franklin
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me." – William Shakespeare, King Richard II (1595-96)
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The chiasmus is an example of a language pattern. Can you describe this pattern? What tone is given to the meaning of the sentences arranged in a chiastic pattern? Can you make up a chiasmus that follows the pattern demonstrated by the examples above? |
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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and
fun a lot more work.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid
change, and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred North Whitehead
Let us never negotiate out of fear; but let us
never fear to negotiate. – John F. Kennedy
An optimist sees an opportunity in every
calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. – Winston Churchill
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise
man knows himself to be a fool.'" – William
Shakespeare, As You Like It (1599-1600)
When I was young and had time to read, I had no
books. Now that I am old and have the books, I have no time to read. – Ben Franklin
Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;
and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger. – Ben Franklin
The honest man takes pains, and then enjoys pleasures;
the knave takes pleasures, and then suffers pain. – Ben Franklin
Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend,
but thou may'st a friend into an enemy. – Ben Franklin
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy Plato. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall
his blood be shed. - Genesis 9:6
Men do not quit playing because they grow old;
they grow old because they quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is better
to deserve honors and not have them than
to have them and not deserve them." - Mark Twain
The mind can create a heaven of hell and hell
of heaven – John Milton, Paradise Lost