Palindromes (Phrases)

Palindromes (Phrases)

Phrases

• Able was I ere I saw Elba.
•  A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.
• Doc, note, I Dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
• Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned.
• I made border bard’s drowsy swords; drab, red robed am I.
• Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak.
• Name no side in Eden, I’m mad! A maid I am, Adam mine; denied is one man.
• Madam, I’m Adam.
• Pull up if I pull up.
• Rats live on no evil star.
• Nurse, I spy gypsies, run!
• Lion oil.
• Dog’s god.
• Degas, are we not drawn onward, no? In union, drawn onward to new eras aged?
• God’s dog.
• Live evil.
• Rise to vote, sir.
• Too hot to hoot.
• Dennis and Edna sinned.
• Was it a cat I saw?
• Was it a car or a cat I saw?
• Evil olive
• Dammit I’m mad
• Racecar
• Taco cat
• Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas
• Step on no Pets
• A butt tuba
• On a clover, if alive, erupts a vast pure evil; a fire volcano
• Ten animals I slam in a net
• Sit on a potato pan, Otis.
• Wonton? Not now.
• Yo banana boy.
• Was it a bar or a bat I saw?
• I man am Regal, a German am I
• Never odd or even
• If I had a Hi-Fi
• No lemon, no melon
• Too bad I hid a boot
• Lisa Bonet ate no basil
• Warsaw was raw
• Do geese see god?
• Do nine men interpret? “Nine men,” I nod.
• Won’t lovers revolt now?
• Race fast, safe car
• Pa’s a sap
• Ma is as selfless as I am
• May a moody baby doom a yam?
• Ah, Satan sees Natasha
• No devil lived on
• Lonely Tylenol
• Not a banana baton
• No “x” in “Nixon”
• O, stone, be not so
• O Geronimo, no minor ego
• “Naomi,” I moan
• A Toyota’s a Toyota
• A dog, a panic, in a pagoda
• Oh no! Don Ho!
• Senile felines
• Now I see bees I won
• UFO tofu
• We panic in a pew
• Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
• God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
• Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog
• A butt tuba
• Draw, o coward!

Symmetry by words

Some palindromes use words as units rather than letters.

• You can cage a swallow, can’t you, but you can’t swallow a cage, can you?
• Fall leaves as soon as leaves fall.
• So patient a nurse to nurse a patient so.
• “Come, shall I touch you wherever, darling? I am so randy.” “So am I, darling; wherever you touch I shall come.”
• “Son, I am able,” she said, “though you scare me.” “Watch,” said I, “beloved.” I said, “Watch me scare you.” “Though,” said she, “able am I, son.”
• First ladies rule the state, and state the rule: “Ladies First!”