40 EXAMPLES OF CHIASMUS

A RHETORICAL DEVICE IN WHICH THE STRUCTURE OF A PHRASE IS REVERSED IN THE SECOND PART TO CREATE A MIRROR-LIKE EFFECT.

1. Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You.

2. Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.

3. It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men.

4. You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

5. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

6. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

7. We shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us.

8. You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl.

9. She has all my love; my heart belongs to her.

10. To be kissed by a fool is stupid; to be fooled by a kiss is worse.

11. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

12. Fair is foul, and foul is fair. (Shakespeare)

13. He knowingly led, and followed unknowingly.

14. Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

15. It is not truth that matters, but who can tell the truth.

16.1 am stuck on Band-Aid, and Band-Aid's stuck on me.

17. The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursues him.

18. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

19. We eat to live, not live to eat.

20. Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love.

21. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

22. What is learned without joy is forgotten without sorrow.

24. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

23. One should eat to live, not live to eat.

25. The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

26. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

27. Do what you love, love what you do.

28. Men do not live to eat; they eat to live.

29. Speech is silver, but silence is golden..

30. He does not possess wealth; wealth possesses him.

31. Work to live, don't live to work.

32. It's not about having what you want, it's about wanting what you have.

33. Don't run from fear; let fear run from you.

34. You can stand up to your enemies, but sometimes it's harder to stand up to your friends.

35. We didn't cross the border the border crossed us.

36. People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

37. It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

38. To lead the people, walk behind them.

39.1 know what I like, and I like what I know.

40.1 meant what I said and I said what I meant.