Verbal U-Turns
This term was coined by Ken Zotigh for a statement that has an unexpected
twist at the end.
Some people call them PARAPROSDOKIANS.
- A fool and his money are soon partying.
- A penny saved is a government oversight.
- After six months in business, we were doing poorly. So we opened a
second store.
- Fred DeLuca, founder of Subway
- All's well that ends.
- Robert Oglesby
- Be nice to your kids; it is they who will choose your nursing home.
- Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you will be a mile away, and you will have his shoes.
- Change is inevitable . . . except from a vending machine.
- Did you by any chance take my pen? Or was it intentional?
- anonymous engineer
- Earth First! We'll strip-mine the other planets later.
- Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one
instruction -- from which one can deduce that every program can be reduced
to one instruction that doesn't work.
- f u cn rd ths, itn tyg h myxbl cd.
- Failure is not an option! It comes bundled with the software.
- For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
- Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
- He who hesitates is probably right.
- He who laughs last, thinks the slowest.
- I bought a burglar alarm; it was stolen.
My wife left me; her mother stayed.
I stopped smoking; my car started.
- the unluckiest man in the world
- I cannot tell a lie . . . the same way twice.
- anonymous engineer
- I didn't say it was your fault. I said I'm blaming you.
- I don't have all my wits about me. Some of my wits are about other people.
- The Russler
- I love animals! They taste great!
- I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
- I still miss my ex. But my aim is getting better!
- I think this calls for a special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
- I think today's college students are some of the brightest, most articulate
people in their age group.
- Emo Phillips
- I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not sure.
- I'm supposed to respect my elders, but they are getting harder to find.
- I've forgotten more than I'll ever remember.
- Shawn McManus
- If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
- If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you.
- If I agreed with you, then we'd both be wrong.
- If you love something, let it go. If it does not come back to you, hunt it down and kill it.
- It is not easy to become beautiful. It requires hard work, patience, and
attention to detail. It also takes a certain firmness of purpose. Beauty
is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to
give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
- Miss Piggy
- Knowledge is having the information that a tomato is a fruit, but wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
- Light travels faster than sound, and this is why some people appear intelligent until they speak.
- Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.
- Save the earth! It's the only planet that has chocolate.
- The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my list.
- The Russler's tips on goal setting:
Goals must be . . .
- specific,
- acheivable,
- measurable,
- guarded by a goalie.
- There's a bat cave here. And a few miles up the road, there's a goot one.
- Dr. Robert L. Scott
- Two wrongs are only the beginning.
- What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
What happens in New Orleans is all over the news.
- The Russler
- When life gives you lemons, make a sour face.
- The Russler
- Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
- Women--you can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress
up in a skimpy Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash.
- Emo Phillips
- You look suspicious; are you?
- Dale Larsen
- You don't need a parachute to skydive, unless you want to do it more than once.
- Dale Larsen