"Chiasmus" Example Sentences
1. "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy
2. "It is not the years in your life but the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
3. "You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl."
4. "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
5. "I meant what I said and I said what I meant."
6. "I am not amused, amused I am not."
7. "Hate the sin, love the sinner."
8. "The first shall be last and the last shall be first."
9. "Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."
10. "The harder you work, the luckier you get."
11. "I can resist anything except temptation." - Oscar Wilde
12. "You have to be odd to be number one." - Dr. Seuss
13. "One should eat to live, not live to eat." - Molière
14. "All for one, and one for all." - Alexandre Dumas
15. "The key to success is to start before you're ready and never let your fear hold you back."
16. "I don't hate you because you're beautiful, you're beautiful because I love you."
17. "In baseball, you don't know nothing." - Yogi Berra
18. "Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do." - Thomas Jefferson
19. "Live the life you love, love the life you live." - Bob Marley
20. "You're never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
21. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
22. "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."
23. "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
24. "Actions speak louder than words."
25. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Henry David Thoreau
26. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama
27. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
28. "The pen is mightier than the sword." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
29. "We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
30. "Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Common Phases
not let the future; future does not let you. Pride precedes a fall; a fall precedes humility. What you eat, you become; become what you eat. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. Love is a verb; verb is an action. Easy come, easy go; go hard, come harder. We give our time to what we value; we value what we give our time to. Actions speak louder than words; words speak louder than intentions. You do not live to eat; you eat to live. Dream big, work hard; work hard, dream bigger.