Palindromes
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A palindrome is a word or a phrase that has the property of reading the same in either direction. Spacing and punctuation do not matter.
Quotes[edit]
Palindromes[edit]
English[edit]
- No one made killer apparel like Dame Noon.
- Jon Agee, as quoted in "Worldplay," by David Astle, Sydney Morning Herald (October 1, 2016), p. 21
Latin[edit]
The Sator Square
- Si Nummi immunis.
- Translation (by William Camden): Give me my fee, and I warrant you free.
- Facetiously known as the "lawyer's motto"
- Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439[1]
- Sator arepo tenet opera rotas.
- Translation: The sower Arepo holds the wheels with effort.
- Alternative translation: The sower Arepo leads with his hand (work) the plough (wheels).
- Known as the Sator Square
- Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439[1]
- In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.
- Translation: We go about in the night and are consumed by fire.
- quoted in The concise Oxford companion to English literature, 2007
See also[edit]
- "Bob" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, a song consisting entirely of palindromes.
