Chiasmus Quotes

“Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.”
― Mardy Grothe

“For the kingdom is not being prepared, but has been prepared, while the sons of the Kingdom are being prepared, not preparing the Kingdom; that is to say, the Kingdom merits the sons, not the songs the Kingdom. So all hell merits and prepares its children rather than they it.”
― Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will

“I can write faster than anyone who can write better, and I can write better than anyone who can write faster.”
― A.J. Liebling

“The burning coals turned red,
What's gulped down won't come back.
The tiger is lurking in the high steppes, they say,
The Kyrgyz heart is pounding...

Will the Kyrgyz, locked up, now die, alas?
Will every one of our people become a Chinaman, alas?
Will it put fear in the heart, alas?
Will the ugly-faced dark Chinese,
Enjoy trampling us down, alas?”
― Hamid Ismailov, Manaschi

“smoking kills
and killing smokes.”
― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall

“Here's to champagne for our true friends and true pain for our sham friends.”
― Marty Grothe