Palindromes

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

Palindromes

English

• Able was I ere I saw Elba.
  • Apocryphal response of Napoleon when supposedly asked at St. Elba if he could have eventually sacked London
  • Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439

• Madam, I'm Adam.
  • Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439
  • To which she replied, Eve

• A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!
  • Leigh Mercer, Notes and Queries, November 13, 1948

• A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal – Panama
  • Guy Steele, Common LISP: The Language, Second Edition, 1984, ISBN 1555580416, p. 405 (computer-aided)

• Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel
  (Lewd did I live, evil I did dwel)
  • John Taylor (1578–1653), in 1614.

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• "Bob" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, a song consisting entirely of palindromes.