智者的犀利较量：名言的交错配列艺术
交错配列（Chiasmus）是指在两个不同的并列句子中，第二个是第一个的颠倒排列 (a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases)。一个著名的例子是西塞罗的“吃饭是为了活着，但活着并不是为了吃饭。”（Eat to live, but not live to eat.）
交错配列常出现在名言中，历史上有很多智者名人的名言中都使用到这个语言艺术。从总统到思想家到作家还有草根人士，大家都在用：
总统队
约翰·肯尼迪: And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.因此，我的美国朋友们：别问你们的国家能为你们做些什么，而要问你能为你们的国家做些什么。
亚伯拉罕·林肯：It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.迄今，关于世界的历史，人们一直说强权即公理，现在应该让我们，让我们这个时代，来颠倒这种说法，让我们说：公理即强权。
罗纳德·里根：Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.各国不相互怀疑是因为它们拥有武装，而它们拥有武装是因为它们相互怀疑。
约翰·肯尼迪: Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.人类不结束战争，战争就会结束人类。
比尔·克林顿：As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.因为我们完全拥有这个国家，我们会用先例的权利来领导它，但要有准备，在必要时，我们创造权利的先例。
亚伯拉罕·林肯：It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.你可以一时骗过所有的人，也可以在所有时间里骗过一些人，但不能在所有时间里骗过所有的人。
乔治·蓬皮杜：A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.政治家是将自己放到他为国家服务的位置上的政客，而政客是将自己放到国家为他服务的位置上的政治家。
吉米·卡特：America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.美国没有发明人权，其实，人权造就了美国。
富兰克林·罗斯福: We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.我们不能总是为我们的青年造就美好未来，但我们能够为未来造就我们的青年一代。
伍德罗·威尔逊：I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!我宁愿在终将成功的事业中遭受失败，也不愿在必定失败的事业里享受成功！
思想家队
弗朗西斯·培根：If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty.若一确信而始者，将止于怀疑；而一怀疑而始者，将止于确信。
巴鲁克·斯宾诺莎：Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.害怕时不会没有期望，期望时也不会没有害怕。
伯纳德·巴鲁克：Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.不要在乎那些介意我们的人，也不要介意那些在乎我们的人。
本杰明·迪斯雷利：Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.行动不会总是带来幸福……但不付出行动就肯定不会有幸福。
莱奥纳多·达·芬奇：绘画是看得见听不着的诗，而诗是听得见却看不着的绘画。 Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
哈维洛克·艾利斯：Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.魅力是女人的力量，正如力量是男人的魅力。
西塞罗： Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.不受教育的天赋才能要比没有天赋才能的教育更容易培养出尊敬与高尚的人。
老子：祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏。Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure.
埃里希·弗洛姆：Infantile love follows the principle: 'I love because I am loved.' Mature love follows the principle: 'I am loved because I love.' Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'幼稚的爱遵循这样的原则：“我去爱是因为我被爱。” 成熟的爱遵循这样的原则：“我被爱是因为我去爱。” 不成熟的爱是：“我爱你是因为我需要你。”成熟的爱是：“我需要你是因为我爱你。”
艾尔弗雷德・诺思・怀特海：The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.进步的艺术是：在变化中有秩序，在秩序中有变化。
杰佛逊·戴维斯：Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.不要对谦卑者傲慢，也不要对傲慢者谦卑。
孔子：君子易事而难说也……；小人难事而易说也。The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
作家队
齐格·齐格拉尔：You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.你不必开始于伟大，但你必须开始去伟大。
萨默塞特·毛姆：At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.赴晚宴时，要吃的聪明，不用吃的太好；要说的好，不用说的太聪明。
托马斯·赫胥黎: Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.尽可能广泛地涉猎各门学问，并且尽可能深入地择一钻研。
菲利普斯·布鲁克斯：Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.不要祈求能力所能胜任的任务，要祈求能胜任任务的能力。
西里尔·康诺利：Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.为自我而不是迎合公众的写作，要胜于迎合公众而不是为自我的写作。
司各特·菲茨杰拉德：You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say. 你不写作时因为你想要说些什么，你写作时因为你不得不说些什么。
G·K·却斯特顿：There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. 一个渴求知识的人去读一本书，一个懒散的人拿一本书来读，这两者之间有很大的区别。
山姆·尤因：It's not the hours you put in your work that count, it's work you put in the hours.你在工作中所投入的时间量并不算数，真正算数的是你在一定时间中所投入的工作量。
埃德加·沃森·豪： A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.男人让衣服适合他，女人让自己适合衣服。
海伦·罗兰：To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.对女人来说，第一吻只是开始的结局；对男人来说，这却是预示结局的开始。
彼得德·弗里斯：The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. 结婚的好处并不在于成人可生养孩子, 而在于孩子可助人成熟。
坎普滕的托马斯：A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.聪明的恋人不在乎爱人所给的礼物，而在乎给礼物人的爱。
威廉·莎士比亚：啊，威力无穷的爱情！时而，它使野兽 变成人；时而，它使人变成野兽。O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
约翰·丘顿·柯林斯：Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.我们一生中半数的错误都来自于我们应该去思考的那些感觉，以及我们应该去感觉到的那些思考。
H·L·门肯：It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.愚人恒信，信人恒愚。
马克·吐温：It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.实而不名, 胜于名而不实。
哈利勒·纪伯伦: When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.' And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.当你爱的时候，你不要说“上帝在我心中”，却要说“我在上帝心中”。不要想你能引导爱的路程，因为对于爱，若是它觉得你值得，它就引导你。
阿尔伯特·哈伯德: If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.如果你的信仰没有改变你，那么你就应当改变你的信仰。
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