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Paradox: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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.

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."— O. W. HOLMES — The Autocrat of the

Breakfast Table. VI. These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' the alehouse. C.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 139.

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 24.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.— BISHOP SOUTH — Sermons.