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chiasmus: (ky-AZ-mus) n. a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases. chiastic adj

	In this world there are two tradedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it. ~ Oscar Wilde

	When you add to the truth, you subtract from it. ~ Talmud

	Who wins through evil loses. ~ Talmud

	We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. ~ Aesop

	Please all, and you will please none. ~ Aesop

	Extreme justice is extreme injustice. ~ Cicero

	There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. ~ Cicero

	Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's own ignorance. ~ Confucius

	As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. ~ Julius Caesar

	Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ~ George Orwell

	The further one pursues knowledge, the less one knows. ~ Lao-Tzu

	The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved. ~ Lao-Tzu

	A jest often decides matters of importance more effectually and happily than seriousness. ~ Horace

	We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. ~ Juvenal

	We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. ~ Aesop

	It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. ~ Aeschylus

	Your greatest enemy is your greatest friend.

	When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. ~ Edgar Watson Howe

	No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. ~ George Eliot

	Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

	Every major horror of history was committed in the nameof altruistic motive. Has any acto f selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetratd by disciples of altruism? ~ Ayn Rand

	Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

	I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly. ~ Saki, in "Reginald on Worries" (1904)

	The most important thing we do is not doing. ~ Louis Brandeis

	The heart of a statesman should be in his head. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

	The greatest power available to man is not to use it. ~ Meister Eckhart

	The true leader is always led. ~ Carl Jung

	All propaganda is lies--even when it is telling the truth. ~ George Orwell

	Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. ~ Oscar Wilde

	Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by excess of his virtues. ~ Aristotle

	It's an impossible situation, but it has possibilities. ~ Samuel Goldwyn

	I'm not afraid to show my feminine side--it's part of what makes me a man. ~ Gerard Depardieu

	The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated ... a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ~ Frank Barron

	Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. ~ Henry Miller

	Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. ~ Jose Ortaga Y Gasset

	What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see. ~ Edith Sitwell

	Sanity is madness put to good uses. ~ George Santayana

	Common sense is not so common. ~ Voltaire

	Sanity is a cozy lie. ~ Susan Sontag

	All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ~ George Orwell

	My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty. ~ Kirk Douglas

	I do desire we may be better strangers. ~ William Shakespeare

	I must be cruel only to be kind. ~ William Shakespeare

	Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ~ William Shakespeare

	You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely. ~ William Shakespeare

	It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ~ Walt Disney

	The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. ~ Oscar Wilde

	Life is too important to be taken seriously. ~ Oscar Wilde

	There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ~ George Orwell

	There is a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is tht half of them are true. ~ Winston Churchill

	You can't make anything idiot-proof because idiots are so ingenious. ~ Ron Burns

	I had to give up masochism--I was enjoying it too much. ~ Mel Calman

	If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then nine times out of ten it will. ~ Paul Harvey

	Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. ~ Don Marquis

	The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swatter. ~ G. C. Lichtenberg

	The secret of life is honest and fair dealing, if you can fake that, you've got it made. ~ Groucho Marx

	I'm in favor of free expression provided it's kept rididly under control. ~ Alan Bennett

	I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here. ~ Stephen Bishop

	Always remember that you are absolutely unique, just like everyone else. ~ Margaret Mead

	Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

	Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering--and it's all over much too soon. ~ Woody Allen

	You have delighted us long enough. ~ Jane Austen

	Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deservied the compliment of rational opposition. ~ Jane Austen

	Mrs. Long is a selfish, hypocitical woman, and I have no opinion of her. ~ Jane Austen

	It was a delightful visit--perfect, in being much too short. ~ Jane Austen

	At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness. ~ Erica Jong

	As in the case of many misanthropes, his disdain for people led him into a profession designed to serve them. ~ Toni Morrison

	Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ~ Edgar Degas

	Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can attain it in nothing. ~ Eugene Delacroix

	Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

	People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid teh appearance of foolishness, they were willing actually to remain fools. ~ Alice Walker

	The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. ~ Umberto Eco

	I don't want to tell you any half-truths unless they're completely accurate. ~ Dennis Rappaport

	Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. ~ George Santayana

	If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral. ~ Katherine Mansfield

	Failure is the foundation of success ... sucess the lurking place of failure. ~ Lao-Tzu

	Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

	There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it. ~ Storm Jameson

	A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed. ~ Milton Friedman

	A meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

	Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level. ~ Margaret London

	To oppose something is to maintain it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin

	He knew that in so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. ~ Ursula K Le Guin

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chiasmus: (ky-AZ-mus) n. a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases. chiastic adj

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