What are some self-referential sentences?

That riddle from a few posts back about "finding the three errors in the
sentence," reminded me of a file of mine on Self-Referential Sentences.

Anybody else want to try their hand at this form of tomfoolery??

     ---L. Graves
      ________________________________________

This is the Title of a Collection of Self-Referential Sentences,
            by D. Hofstadter, D. Moser, & L. Graves.

This sentence no verb.
This sentence is false.
Disobey this command.
This sentence contradicts itself--or rather--well, no, actually it doesn't!
This sentence contains exactly threee erors.
This sentence, although not the first sentence in this collection,
appears near the beginning.
I am not the subject of this sentence.
I am jealous of the first word in this sentence.
Well, how about that--this sentence is about me!
I am simultaneously writing and being written.
I am the meaning of this sentence.
I am not the person who wrote me.
I am the thought you are now thinking.
I am the set of neural firings taking place in your brain as you read
the set of letters in this sentence and think about me.
As long as you are not reading me, the fourth word in this sentence has
no referent.
Hey, out there-is that you reading me, or is it someone else?
Thit is not a self-referent sentence, because, "thit" is not a word.
When you are not looking, this sentence is in Spanish.
Cette phrase en francais est difficile a traduire en anglais.
This English sentence is difficult to translate into French.
I had to translate this sentence into English, because I could not read
the original Sanskrit.
This sentence before your eyes spent a month in Hungarian last year and
was only recently translated back into English.
If this sentence were in Chinese, it would say something else.
.siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI
If I had finished this sentence,
   because I didn't think of a good beginning for it.
In order to make sense of "this sentence," you will have to ignore the
quotes in "it."
This sentence is not about itself, but about whether it is about itself.
This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter.
This sentence was in the past tense.
This sentence has contains two verbs.
This sentence contains one numeral 2 many.
It goes without saying that . . .
   a preposition.  This sentence ends in
What would this sentence be like if it were not self-referential?
What would this sentence be like if pi were equal to 3?
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, eighty-six letters could
have been processed by your brain.
This is not a complete.  Sentence.  This either.
A sentence fragment.  Another fragment.  Another.  Bizarre.  This.  More
fragments.  Could be useful.  Perhaps another time.

This sentence is bursting at the punctuation marks with news of the dire
import of self-reference as applied to sentences, a practice that could
prove to be a veritable Pandora's box of potential havoc, for if a
sentence can refer or allude to itself, why not a lowly subordinate
clause, perhaps this very clause?  Or this sentence fragment?  Or three
words?  Two words?  One?

This sentence contains only one nonstandard English flutzpah.
This gubblik contains many nonsklarish English flukpahs, but the overall
pluggandisp can be glorked from context.
This sentence has five (5) words.
This sentence has cabbage six words.
It feels sooo good to have your eyes run over my curves and serifs.
Is the question mark still at the end of this sentence?
This sentence is a !!! premature punctuator
This sentence, though not interrogative, nevertheless ends in a question
mark?
There's a question mark at the end of this sentence?
Why, there is still no question mark at the end of this sentence.
Until you reach the end of this sentence, you may not realize that it
is, in fact, interrogative?
This sentence has no punctuation semicolon most of the others do period
This hear sentence do'nt know Inglish purtty good.
If you meet this sentence on the board, erase it.
This sentence has nothing to allude to, and it is alluding to it.
Terse!
Did you read me?
This point is well taken.
You may quote me.
I have been sentenced to death.
This prophecy will come true.
This sentence will end before you can say, "Jack Rob
Does this sentence remind you of Agitha Christie?
Please, oh please, include this sentence in your collection of
self-referral sentences.
Is this a rhetorical question, or is this a rhetorical question?
How far across your screen will this sentence run?
This sentence contains contains ten words, eighteen syllables, and
sixty-four letters.
T is the first, fourth, eleventh, sixteenth, twenty-fourth, twenth-ninth,
thirty-third, . . .
"Has eighteen letters" does.

In this sentence, the word "and" occurs twice, the word "eight" occurs
twice, the word "four" occurs twice, the word "fourteen" occurs four
times, the word "in" occurs twice, the word "seven" occurs twice, the
word "the" occurs fourteen times, the word "this" occurs twice, the word
"times" occurs seven times, the word "twice" occurs eight times, and the
word "word" occurs fourteen times.

Only the fool would take the trouble to verify that this sentence was
composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's,
sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's,
four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's,
forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four
x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven
hyphens, and, last but not least, a single !

The following sentence is totally identical with this one, except that
the words 'following' and 'preceding' have been exchanged, as have the
words 'except' and 'in', and the phrases 'identical with' and 'different
from'.
The preceding sentence is totally different from this one, in that the
words 'preceding' and 'following' have been exchanged, as have the words
'in' and 'except', and the phrases "different from' and 'identical
with'.

This sentence informs you that the following sentence is true.
This sentence informs you that the preceding sentence is false.

This statement is inoperative.
This sentence is not as witty as its author.
This sentence refers to every sentence that does not refer to itself.
This sentence does in fact not have the property it claims not to have.
The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand on
How come this noun phrase doesn't denote the same thing as this noun
phrase does?
I don't care who wrote this sentence--he's a damn sexist!
This analogy is like lifting yourself by your own bootstraps.
Although this sentence begins with the word "because," it is false.
This line from Shakespeare has delusions of grandeur.
If writers were bankers, this sentence would be exactly a dozen words
long.
The whole point of this sentence is to make clear what the whole point
of this sentence is.

I eee oai o ooa a e ooi eee o oe.
Ths sntnc cntns n vwls th prcdng sntnc n cnsnnts.

If the meanings of 'true' and 'false' were switched, then this sentence
wouldn't be false.
I've heard that this sentence is a rumor.
If John F Kennedy were reading this sentence, Lee Harvey Oswald would
have missed.
This sentence is my feeble way of attempting to get my name into print.

which is actually is not a complete sentence, but merely a subordinate
clause.
This sentence self-refers in its verb.
This sentence every third, but it still comprehensible.
This would easier understand fewer had omitted.
This impossible except context.
This sentence used to think it was indecisive, but now it's not sure.
In this sentence the concluding three words, "were left out," ____ ____ ___.
This sentence offers its reader(s) various alternatives/options that he
or she (or they) is (are) free to accept and/or reject.
This sentence is near the end of this collection.
This sentence is neurotic.
If I stated something else, would I still be me?
In another world, could I have been a sentence about Humphry Bogart?
If I were you, who would be reading this sentence?
You have, of course, just begun reading the sentence that you have just
finished reading.
This sentence is not the last sentence in this collection.
This is!

-- L. Graves ("Fenris") <logan@apex.net>, November 1996