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Many hands make light work; March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb; Marriages are made in heaven [17] [18] [19] Marry in haste, repent at leisure; Memory is the treasure of the mind; Men are blind in their own cause – Heywood Broun (1888–1939), American journalist; Men get spoiled by staying, women get spoiled by wandering
These paradoxes, insolubilia (insolubles), have in common a contradiction arising from either self-reference or circular reference, in which several statements refer to each other in a way that following some of the references leads back to the starting point. Barber paradox: A male barber shaves all and only those men who do not shave ...
The individual words make sense and are arranged according to proper grammatical rules, yet the result is nonsense. The inspiration for this attempt at creating verbal nonsense came from the idea of contradiction and seemingly irrelevant and/or incompatible characteristics, which conspire to make the phrase meaningless, but are open to ...
It does not make sense. (da: 7.9%; sv: 28.0%) Paraphrase (d) is in fact the only possible interpretation of (1); this is possible due to the lexical ambiguity of har "have" between an auxiliary verb and a lexical verb just as the English have ; however the majority of participants (da: 78.9%; sv: 56%) gave a paraphrase which does not follow ...
Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good").
You might be surprised by how many popular movie quotes you're remembering just a bit wrong. 'The Wizard of Oz' Though most people say 'Looks like we're not in Kansas anymore,' or 'Toto, I don't think
The author (not pictured) says he had to work on not taking things his teens say personally. Georgijevic/Getty Images
These statements do not make themselves true, no matter how many times you say them. Empty assertions usually result in escalation of conflicts. When someone asks that another person do something but is unwilling to give you any reason why that person should do it, this is unconvincing, thus often unproductive.