VICE NO VERSA
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There is God. God is there.
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Lost of loved ones. Love of lost ones.
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Don’t drink and drive! Drink first, drive later?
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Money Is not Everything. Everything is money.
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Money is not the problem. The problem is no money.
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He is a detective in police force. He is a defective in police farce.
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Accept rejection. Reject acceptance
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Don’t ‘Add years to your life’. ‘Add life to your years’.
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Last year, we found ‘alcohol in his urine’. This year we found ‘urine in his alcohol’.
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Before marriage – a man thought he could boss the house. After marriage, he realised he could only house the boss.
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Don’t ‘Count your days’, ‘Make your day count’.
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‘Don’t! Stop!’ is NOT the same as ‘Don’t Stop!’
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‘Evian’ for the ‘Naive’?
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I own money UNTIL money owns me.
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At work, are you treated like GOD, or are you treated like DOG?
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Food as medicine. Medicine as food.
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Don’t get left behind. Do give right now.
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Get something for nothing. Get nothing for something.
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‘I Had the run of my life’, For now ‘I run for my life’.
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Human being. Being human.
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I need you because I love you. I love you because I need you.
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‘I thank you from the bottom of my heart.’ is NOT the same as ‘I thank you form the heart of my bottom.’
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Iceland is full of green. Greenland if full of ice.
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‘Having a business’ is NOT the same as ‘Having business’.
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In the past, she said, “A good man is hard to find.” Now she says, “A hard man is good to find.”
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Is “Come here devil.” the same as “Here comes the devil.”?
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Is ‘I love you till the day I die.’ the same as ‘I love you till the day you die.’?
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Kiss your wife good-bye when you leave your house every morning. If not, you will kiss your house good-bye when you leave your wife.
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Left brain nothing right. Right brain nothing left.
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Life is not fair. If it is fair, it’s NOT life.
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Between ‘Live for God’ and ‘Die for God’, ‘Die for God’ is easier.
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LP PL
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Raising ‘standard of living’ is NOT the same as raising ‘quality of life’.
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“Wrong at the right time” is NOT the same as “Right at the wrong time”
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‘Between A and B” is NOT the same as “Between B and A”. (If you are asked to carry out some job ‘between sunrise and sunset’, you cannot do it ‘between sunset and sunrise’.)
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In any war, it’s NOT “who’s right”, but “who’s left”.
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“Nursing Home” is NOT the same as “Home Nursing”.
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Sign reads “Exciting Shop Coming.” is THE SAME as “Excited Shop Gone.”
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God put ‘work in your life’. Are you putting ‘life is your work’?
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Quit while losing. Lose while quitting.
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Racecar spelt backward = Racecar
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Read what you love, love what you read, UNTIL you love to read.
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RI vs IR
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Scholar vs Scorer.
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Solomon was rich because he got wisdom. We think all rich people got wisdom.
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Sound and original. Sound not original. Original not sound.
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Sweat petty things. Pet sweaty things.
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It’s NOT ‘Useless’. It’s ‘Use less’.
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It’s NOT Hopeless. It’s ‘Hope less’.
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‘A strapless bra with a strap gown’ is NOT the same as ‘A strap bra with a strapless gown’.
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‘Business opportunity’ is NOT the same as ‘Opportunity business’.
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‘A web business’ is NOT the same as ‘A business web’ (with no business).
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When women go wrong, men go right after.
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See ‘STRESSED’ the other way around becomes ‘DESSERTS’.
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See wife at home after a hard day in office. See secretary in office after a hard day at home.
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Work in life. Life in work.
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‘Make a good living’ is NOT the same as ‘make living good’.
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不同的宗教。宗教的不同
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不迷信 迷不信 信不迷
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伦敦 敦伦
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不怕辣 辣不怕 怕不辣
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Earn to live. Live to earn.
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Work to live. Live to work.
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Your ‘good time to buy’ = Someone’s ‘bad time to sell’.
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In any venture, if you made it, it was because of ‘Perseverance’. If you didn’t, it was ‘Stubbornness’.
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In any venture, if you made it, it was because of ‘Foresight’. If you didn’t, it was ‘Shortsight’.
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In any venture, if you made it, it was because you were ‘Decisive’. If you didn’t, it was ‘Impulsive’.
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OXYMORONS
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Act naturally
Adult children
Advanced basic
Advanced beginner
Alone together
AND THE MOTHER OF THEM ALL
Anything of nothing
Awfully good
Awfully pretty
Big baby
Big Little Lies
Bittersweet
Brawling love
Calculated risk
Cheerful pessimist
Civil War
Clearly confused
Clearly misunderstood
Completely unfinished
Conspicuous absence
Cool passion
Crash landing
Cruel kindness
Deafening silence
Definite maybe
Definite possibility
Definitely maybe
Definitely, Maybe
Deliberate mistake
Deliberate speed
Devout atheist
Escaped prisoner
Even odds
Exact estimate
Extinct life
False truth
Falsely true
Fight for peace
Foolish wisdom
Found missing
Free gift
Fresh frozen
Friendly fight
Friendly takeover
Full-time part-timer
Fully empty
Genuine imitation
Good grief
Good shit
Graduate student
Growing smaller
Happily married
Heavy diet
Heavy lightness
Historical fiction
Holy war
Honest thief
Ill health
Impossible solution
Irreligiously religious
Joyful sadness
Jumbo Shrimp
Larger half
Least favourite
Liquid gas
Living Dead
Loosely sealed
Loud whisper
Love-hate
Loving hate
Loyal traitor
Magical realism
Minor crisis
Negative growth
Negative income
Old news
Only choice
Open bar
Open secret
Optimistic pessimist
Organised mess
Original copy
Painfully beautiful
Paper towel
Perfect imperfections
Plastic glasses
Practical joke
Pretty ugly
Professional idiot
Properly ridiculous
Random order
Real potential
Recorded live
Same Difference
Science fiction
Serious joke
Seriously funny
Shrewd dumbness
Silent scream
Small crowd
Static flow
Student teacher
Sweet sorrow
The sound of silence
Theoretical experience
Tragic comedy
True fiction
True lies
True myth
Unbiased opinion
Unconscious awareness
Unfortunately lucky
Uninvited guest
Unrealistic dream
Upward fall
Virtual reality
Waking dream
Walking dead
Whole piece
Wise fool
Working holiday
Working vacation
Zero tolerance
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PUNS
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Cannot | Cannot
Change 改变 | Change 更换
Good news: Nothing lasts forever | Bad news: Nothing lasts forever
Life is short: 短 | Life is short: 矮
Life 生命 | Life 生活
No Need 没需要 | No Need 不需要
PMS | PMS
Right way (road,direction) | Wrong way (method)
Save 储存 | Save 挽救
Unfit 不健康 | Unfit 不适合
逃避问题 | 逃避问题
难吃的都不难吃
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