Backwards Even In A Mirror
Reversing an English phrase
QuotaBillsThe way forwards is backwards. - Dave Sexton
I will not walk backward in life. - JRR Tolkien
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards. - Unknown
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham
No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. - Winston Churchill
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz
The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. - Alexander Woollcott
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
Give me a few lines of a man's handwriting; that will be sufficient for me to get him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky
The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay
Grammar: 1. Lives with granpar; 2. The difference between Feeling Your Nuts and Feeling You’re Nuts. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards? - Jay Leno
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork
Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster; it's more like a cha-cha. - Robert Brault
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. - Margaret Barber
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe