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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Paradox |
| For thence,—a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i’ the scale. Robert Browning—Rabbi-Ben-Ezra. St. 7. | 1 |
| Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian, in one of his flashing moments: “Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.” Holmes—The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. VI. | 2 |
| These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i’ the alehouse. Othello. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 139. | 3 |
| You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 24. | 4 |
| The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. Bishop South—Sermons. | 5 |
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