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"FAITH — What is it?
The belief that is true or the truth which is believed?
Is it the desire for truth or is it the truth of desire?"
— George Bowman
"Some people are so constituted that
they don't have what they want
And they don't want what they have."
— Linda Bulloch
"If you don't pay attention to others,
don't expect others to pay much attention to you."
— Peter Getz
"The person everybody knows as a 'horse's ass'
may ride an animal known as an 'ass's horse.'"
— Wayne Johnson
"A suggested epitaph:
He did not suffer fools;
he did not fool sufferers."
— Bernard Joseph
"The faith in truth
is the truest form of faith."
— Manish Joshi
"There is no gain without risk,
But there is often risk without gain."
— Anh Ng
"After receiving an E-mail entitled
'It's good to be a man,'
I thought, 'Yes, but it's better for a man to be good!'"
— Ray Vaslavsky
"Great athletes occasionally have bad moves,
And bad athletes sometimes have great ones."
— J. B. Williamson
"Why does the fool provoke me,
and why must i provoke the fool?"
— C. J. Wolfe
"I was talking to a friend on the phone one day,
but I didn't want to talk too much or we
wouldn't have anything to talk about the next day.
I told my friend I was engaged in
conversation conservation."
— Steve Clark
"Regarding the President-Select,
would it be better to regurgitate my stomach,
or stomach my regurgitation?"
— Andrew Delany
"The best thing about Thanksgiving leftovers finally being gone:
the cold turkey quits!"
— Paul T. Ferris
"When my startled wife saw the results
of my experiment with a 'new' razor,
she asked if I had cut myself while I was shaving.
I replied, 'Apparently just the opposite.'"
— Scott Fullmer
"To know life is to love many things,
but to know many things doesn't always
make you loving and full of life!"
— Jackie Maiden
"Does the mind think to reason,
or does reason think to mind?"
— Tara Jean Yurkovitz
"If you're wasted all the time,
all your time is wasted."
— C. J. Wolfe
"My case is that of a woman
who fails in obtaining what she desires
and desiring what she obtains."
— Mirane Abizaki
"When considering the sharing
of nuclear secrets with the Soviets,
'tis better to bear arms than to arm bears."
— A. J. Coco
"Learn to explore something new,
explore to learn something new."
— Ashwin Dalvi
"The ideal job is not one where we think work is perfect;
it is one at which we are inspired to perfect our work."
— Paul Ferris
"Not everyone who can hear listens, and
not everyone who listens can hear."
— Scott Fullmer
"The stars were not made to determine the destiny of humanity.
Humanity was created to determine the destiny of the stars."
— Ed Gardner
"It's not the face you must kiss,
It's the kiss you must face."
— Stephen J. Marks
"Science does not give ultimate answers to any questions,
or any answers to ultimate questions."
— Chris Smyth
"We have come into the world with two principles:
"An opulent man may be bereft of joy," and
"A joyful man may be bereft of opulence."
Humanity has evolved to disregard the third:
"Man has bereft joy of opulence."
— Steven Quinn and Sarah Hasan
"Has anyone heard anything from anyone,
in Palm Beach County who, intending to vote for Buchanan,
accidentally voted for Gore?"
— C. J. Wolfe
"I seriously need an editor.
When I think about my writing, I can't create;
when I'm creating, I don't think about my writing."
— George W. Bowman
"To a nobody you may be famous.
To the famous you are but a nobody."
— Steven Chen
"Seeing is believing,
Being is to see living."
— Ashwin Dalvi
"I would rather study my government
than have my government study me."
— Teri Foltz
"There is more integrity in
doing the 'wrong' thing for the right reason than in
doing the 'right' thing for the wrong reason."
— Scott Fullmer
"In order for our people to have value
we must first value our people."
— Richard Lefeber
"Rather than stopping in at a redneck bar,
I would prefer a bistro that bars rednecks."
— Liz Oldaker
"Poetry is magic with words;
magic is wordless poetry."
— Ed Parrish
"What makes the fool a fool?
Trying to make the truth reflect his belief.
What makes the wise man wise?
Trying to make his belief reflect the truth."
— C. J. Wolfe
"Love can make a sad man happy,
so can it make a happy man sad."
— Yixian
On reading "Chiastic Quotes of the Week" on vacation:
"We are absorbing your observations
while we observe our absorption of Mount Gay Rum."
— Russell Achzet
"People who are not interested in politicians,
may find that politicians are not interested in them."
— Amy Brennan
"Evil people should yield to good laws
just as good people should resist evil laws."
— Scott Fullmer
"Our faith keeps us strong in times of trial.
Our strength keeps us faithful in times of contentment."
— Toby Garcia
"While his mother, blissfully oblivious, entertained in
the squalid splendor of their new-found wealth,
he, obviously blissful, entertained himself in
the splendid squalor of the new-formed mud."
— E. González
"On teenage abstinence and other things:
"Some people wait until they're good and ready,
while others are good and not ready,
and still others ready but not good."
— Don Hauptman
"Down in Georgia, there was a farmer who stuttered.
One day he saw a truck filled with his prize produce
headed for a deep patch of mud. He cried 'S-s-s-s-stop.'
But he was too late.
Due to a speech impediment,
he had a peach in sediment."
— Wayne Kline
"Apathy is the first crack
that allows an entire building to collapse.
A collapsed building remains
like rubble only because of apathy."
— Alyssa Moxley
"Integrity begins with I and
I begin with integrity."
— Mark Roth
"God has time for everyone,
but not everyone has time for God."
— C. J. Wolfe
On God:
"He is the one present in all and
all the paths lead to the One."
— Simran Bir
"Never date your friend's brother,
or your brother's friend."
— Amy Brennan
"When looking for just the right wine
to take to a first date,
remember the good isn't cheap
and cheap isn't good!"
— Allyson Cooper
"On The TV Show Survivor:
"In some sense the goal of the players
was to learn how to survive,
while the goal of the survivors
was to learn how to play."
— Andrew Delany
"The President added a stain to her dress,
her dress added a bigger stain to his Presidency."
— Andrew Delany
"Chiasmus is a reversal in the order of words
The words out of order is Chaosmus."
— Paul T. Ferris
"Never fish for compliments,
and never compliment a fish."
— Jill Lynn Franklin
"What is not simple,
simply won't be."
— Gil Greengross
"History makes heroes and heroines,
but men and women make history."
— Gaurav Sharma
On Chiasmus and other competitions:
"I love finding time to compete, since being married,
I no longer compete with time to find love."
— Paul T. Ferris
"I may someday regret the time I've spent on other things
at the expense of my son,
but I will never regret the time I've spent on my son
at the expense of other things."
— Scott Fullmer
"Al Gore has been addressing change. He has to.
If he doesn't make an address of change,
He'll get a change of address."
— Wayne Kline
"Better a veterinarian
than an Aryan veteran."
— Mike Morton
"If you want to change the world, change yourself;
if you want to change yourself, change the world."
— Todd Rossman
"Jonathan Edwards' most famous sermon was titled,
"Sinners in the hands of an angry God."
Today it often seems like it's more a case of
"God in the hands of angry sinners."
— Don Ruhl
"She may be the love of your life but
she wants to feel the life in your love."
— J. T. Scully
"I love a disguise
But I won't disguise my love"
— Christian Trabue
"The best thing one can do is
that thing that one does best."
— Barbara Vanyo
"When decision making is by consensus
it is far better to have an odd number of people,
then a number of odd people!"
— Bauke van der Ploeg
"Life is a journey to death.
Death is a journey to life."
— Corlita Babb
"The life of education is paying to learn,
while the education of life is learning to pay."
— Geri Costanza
"A smart student answers the teacher's question,
but a wise student questions the teacher's answer."
— Neal M. Cohen
"A Christian believes, 'Whatever is mine is yours,'
and a communist believes just the opposite."
— Scott Fullmer
CHIASMUS:
"I can't explain its meaning but
I can give it meaning by explaining."
— Bruce Van Roy
"When I got out of the hospital,
I waited for the crosswalk sign to flash 'walk.'
I had learned it's better to be
a patient pedestrian than
a pedestrian patient."
— Wayne Kline
"In our youth, we seek to trade innocence for experience.
In our dotage, we seek to experience innocence."
— J. T. Scully
"Introducing a friend who is a restaurant Chef I said,
'He's so good that he can take an old, used condom
and make it taste like calamari.
Or, is it the other way around?'"
— Paul T. Mill
"Being honest is asserting
what you believe to be true,
but being truthful is reasserting
what you know ... to be honest."
— J. D. Opdyke and Geri Costanza
"What appeared to be the gift of shallow water
gifted a shallow appearance:
the water consuming itself and
its bearer bathing in narcissistic apathy."
— Aliza Pearlson
"Don't feel guilt when you experience pleasure
unless you feel pleasure when you experience guilt."
— Alyssa Aiello
"At the Royal Theatre competition,
Robin Hood accused the Sheriff of Nottingham of overacting.
The Sheriff denied the charge, saying 'Nottingham is hamming not.'"
— Wayne Kline
"Brush the plaque off your teeth or
the plaque will give your teeth the brush off."
— Richard Price, D.M.D.
"The sharper the pencil the finer the point;
the finer the writer the sharper the point."
— John Render
"If you are full of wonder you question for knowledge
If you are full of knowledge it takes away from wonder."
— Annie Rosenbaum
"The weak think the strong are fools;
Fools think the wise are weak."
— Bob Rosenberg
"Live and learn
so you can
learn to live."
— Elizabeth Schlie
"While lawyers bargain for justice,
clients find justice is rarely a bargain."
— J. T. Scully
"Reagan entered office as an actor and left as a president,
Clinton entered office as a president and will leave as an actor."
— Leah Silver
"Believe a little,
but never belittle a belief."
— Charlie Smith
"It is better to
win at losing then to
lose at winning."
— Stefanie Blair-Santiago
"Man may make the mistakes,
but most importantly,
it's the mistakes that make the man."
— Anshuman Choudhri
A motto for the Census Bureau:
"Count everyone,
because everyone counts."
— Steve Clark
"Jealousy is often mistaken for true love,
but true love can never be mistaken for jealousy."
— Scott Fullmer
"Accessories become women
as long as
women do not become accessories."
— Philip Noble
"It is easy to make things difficult
It is difficult to make things easy."
— Ernest Reinhart
"If you want to change the world, change yourself;
if you want to change yourself, change the world."
— Todd Rossman
"Blessed is the woman whose lover
thinks of her every dying hour,
and pitied is the woman whose lover
imagines her dying every hour."
— Parker Smith
"When you are young, exciting is nice.
When you are older, nice is exciting."
— Vaari Claffey
"Not all facts come from books,
and not all books come from facts."
— Jeremy Dudley
"Jesus said to his humble followers,
'If you love me, keep my commandments.'
He might say to some of his self-righteous followers,
'If you keep my commandments, love me.'"
— Scott Fullmer
"The counterculture reaction to stock market excesses:
'It is better to share your values than to value your shares.'"
— Don Hauptman
"There's no learning without feedback
And no feedback without learning."
— Peter Honey
"When people don't understand their faults,
can we call that a faulty understanding?"
— Stanley Martin
"Why is it that fault-finders are so bad
at finding fault with themselves?"
— Carly Pierce
"Live not for the love of wealth;
live for the wealth of love."
— Jeremy Sickel
"Pin-up girls are selected for beauty before age."
— Tom Thornton
"A marathoner's cash is 'money for one's run.'"
— Tom Thornton
"I once had a beautiful girlfriend.
I thought I was very lucky, because so many men wanted her.
It turned out I was unlucky, because she wanted so many men."
— Clark Bodsworth
"You may put an Irishman amongst the English,
but you cannot make an Englishman out of an Irish."
— Simon Curtis
"Excuses do not make people lazy.
Lazy people make excuses."
— Toby Garcia
"Few vices have ever been turned into virtues,
but many virtues have been turned into vices."
— Scott Fullmer
"Many live to die;
only few die to live."
— Romeo Korkes
"You can be the life of the evening
in the evening of your life."
— Doris Krebsbach
"Successful sales is not just a case of
you targeting your market,
but also of your market targeting you."
— John Mortimer
"My girlfriends don't like to talk about football,
but my football buddies like to talk about girls."
— Ian Pancer
"There is a difference between
what's in the public interest and
what interests the public."
— Karl Pike
"To live with fear
is to fear to live."
— Steve Singerman
"Add life to your days,
not days to your life."
— Stephanie Aims
"We must never interpret truth through the glasses of our experience.
Rather, we should interpret our experiences through the glasses of the truth."
— Edwin Crozier
To an old friend:
"Thank you for being
an eternal part of my life,
and a part of my eternal life."
— Scott Fullmer
"A question from someone who doesn't understand the fairer sex:
do periods of irregularity spring from irregularity of periods,
or is it the reverse?"
— Ross Mackenzie
"I must be getting very old.
I used to wish for a livelier heart,
rather than for a heartier liver as I do now."
— Ross Mackenzie
"While many outsiders never feel like insiders,
every insider has at some time felt like an outsider."
— Frank Strasburger
"My wife told me she's getting low on underwear.
I told her I prefer the underwear low on her."
— Marcus Swabsmith
"In theory, theory predicts results. In
practice, results lead to theories."
— Tom Thornton
"The workers always manage but the
managment don't always work!"
— Louis Thurley
"Ambiguity defeats communication, as surely as
good communication is the enemy of ambiguity."
— Alan Williams
"I'd rather be a veterinarian
than an Aryan veteran."
— Mike Morton
"Sometimes in trying to succeed
one only succeeds in trying."
— Reg Plumb
"'All's fair in love and war,'
but there's no love in warfare."
— Terry Dale
"It is said that 'A picture is worth a thousand words.'
But, we paronomasiacs say 'A word can be worth a thousand pictures.'"
— Terry Dale
"Work often suffers because of the demands of parenting,
and parenting often suffers because of the demands of work."
— Roberta Proctor
"Man's desires are to make conquest of insatiable women,
but insatiable women make conquest of man's desires."
— Nicholas Hladek
"Less is more,
more or less."
— Burda Vandeborne
"Bitter fruit from the tree of life can turn
a delicious meal into a malicious deal."
— Duane Madison
"The Tale of the Marathon:
In the beginning, the runners' feet hit the road,
but at the end the road hits the runners' feet."
— Patrick Glynn
"Oh, the pleasure of a shower,
Showering me with pleasure!"
— Heather Richards
"All Roads May Lead to Rome.
All Roams Do Not Lead to Roads."
— Norm Balleine
"The difference between truly loving a woman,
and buying her love through gifts
is that true love costs so little and means so much,
and buying love means so little and costs so much."
— Dalia Hervitz
"Do people make words to fit ideas
or ideas to fit words?"
— Daphna
"A reader does not live within the pages of a book;
the pages live within the reader."
— Roberta Proctor
"I don't write the things I think of;
when I write, I think of things."
— Roberta Proctor
"Saving Private Ryan.
Saving Ryan's Privates."
— Danny Stern
"For a song to fill the heart,
first a heart must fill the song."
— Greg Tamblyn
"When my roommate gets embarrassed he farts,
and when he farts he gets embarrassed."
— Travis Tanberg
"A man can father a baby
but a baby fathered does not make a man."
— Burda Vandeborne
"The evolution of computer hardware:
'69 Megadollars for a few bytes.
'96 A few dollars for a Megabyte."
— Alan Williams
"Dictionary: a way to airy diction?"
— Alan Williams
"When you post a strong message on a message board
intended to elicit a strong reaction, you:
'Fan the flames
while you flame the fans.'"
— Brenda Houlton-Aikin
"44,920 visitors have loved this language site."
— Anonymous Visitor
(an example of implied chiasmus,
reversing the site counter,
which said "44,920 language lovers have visited this site.")
"Over the years, many attempts have been made
to reunite the Christian Churches.
Someday … 'That will be a Bridge we have to Cross.'
Somehow … 'That will be a Cross we have to Bridge.'"
— Norm Balleine
"To my daughter on her birthday:
Remember, twenty-one is the drinking age,
not the age of drinking."
— Jim Breffeilh
"Our simplest perfection as human beings
is simply being human."
— John M. Kohlenberger
"Words of war put all men in pieces;
a war of words puts peace in all men."
— Ross Mackenzie
(an example of double chiasmus)
"Fondness makes the heart grow absent."
— Joseph Salonga
(an example of implied chiasmus, reversing
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder.")
"We are born into this world with a body and no name
and we leave this world with a name and no body."
— Dr. Garrett S. Thurston
"Know where you're going
or you'll go nowhere."
— Burda Vandeborne
"Intelligence counters
Counterintelligence."
— J.H. Burke
"Don't trash the pickup
when you pick up the trash."
— Fred Clark
"There's a broken light for every heart on Broadway."
— Diane Dickey
(an example of implied chiasmus, reversing
"There's a broken heart for every light on Broadway.")
"Life takes from you
unless you take from life."
— Joyce E. Dorbish
Advice for the Workplace:
"Never believe that you see it all,
Or see that you believe it all."
— Susan A. Hodge
"People need a reason to change,
but some people need to change before they can reason."
— Tom Oliver
"A good offense requires pushing the envelope.
A good defense requires enveloping the push."
— Dennis R. Ridley
"What great fortune it is
to have a friend who is like a brother
and a brother who is like a friend."
— Bob Sharton
"If you worship at the altar of success
then success will alter you."
— Glenn White
Quote for Family life:
"There is no time like the present
and no present like the time."
— Glenn White
"Never under estimate
the POWER of LOVE
or the LOVE of POWER."
— Vic Castor
"A love a wealth may bring you
that with a high price,
but a wealth of love will bring you
that which is priceless."
— Steve Driscoll
"Those who question the Bible
have whys for the word."
— Frederick J. Ernst
(an example of implied chiasmus,
reversing "word for the wise")
"I don't entertain other people's ideas.
Their ideas entertain me."
— Barry Kort
"Those who hate to learn
often too easily learn to hate."
— Che LeMomo
"We call them landfills, we park our trash;
thus we fill the land, and trash our parks."
— Sumita Millick
(an example of double chiasmus)
"The reality of failure may be hard to swallow,
but what about the failure of reality?"
— Tom McGuire
"It doesn't matter who you are,
as long as you know the answer to 'Who are you?'"
— Megamaniac
"Many folks write verse,
But few of them verse rightly."
— James Tisdall
"Being stupid is simple,
but being simple is not stupid."
— Siva Perraju Tolety
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