Can anyone add to this list of cliches with word reversals to create clever sayings?
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Can anyone add to this list of cliches with word reversals to create clever sayings? Time wounds all heels. Add life to your years. A hard man is good to find. (Mae West) -- Andy Roberts <aroberts@gsm.ucdavis.edu> [Editor: in a 1996 thread titled "Not exactly a puzzle"]
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Time's fun when you're having flies. (Kermit???) -- Steve Sosensky <steves@loop.com> Praising with faint damns. (Dorothy L. Sayers -- original with her?) Eat your cake and have it too. (T. Kaczynski and the UNABOMer) -- Jim Gillogly There is no present like time. -- CHEYENNE <CHEYENNE@gsm.ucdavis.edu> [ Editor: further material on this puzzle, edited separately from other collected postings (batch 13); it may repeat some of the above. ] [ Editor: problem as stated there: ] List some cliches with word reversals that create clever sayings, e.g. "Time wounds all heels." Time wounds all heels. Add life to your years. A hard man is good to find. (Mae West) -- Andy Roberts <aroberts@gsm.ucdavis.edu> Time's fun when you're having flies. (Kermit???) -- Steve Sosensky <steves@loop.com>