Sometimes, an oxymoron results when we do not think through what we are going to say. Sometimes, it is because language is the way it is, and a word has more than one meaning. Enjoy the following selection of Oxymorons. I hope they put a smile on your face.
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Most people don’t mind suffering in silence as long as everyone else knows about it. - Croft M. Pentz
A normal adolescent isn’t a normal adolescent if he acts normal. - Judith Viorst
The thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football. - Terry Pratchett
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. - Josh Billings
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. - Edgar Allan Poe
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you’re on the job. - Slappy White
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there. - Yogi Berra
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. - Edgar Watson Howe
I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything. - Jarod Kintz
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. - Eric Hoffer
Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism. - Samuel Butler
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