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Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You Paperback – February 26, 2002

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What do Mae West, John F. Kennedy, Victor Hugo, and H. L. Mencken have in common? They all indulged in chiasmus-a literary device in which word order is reversed to hilarious or poignant effect. When Mae West said, "It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men," she was using chiasmus; when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," he was doing the same. Dr. Mardy Grothe has compiled hundreds of examples of chiasmus in this whimsically illustrated collection, bringing this witty and thought-provoking device out of obscurity and into the public imagination.

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"There is plenty of delight in this overdue collection." —Houston Chronicle

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Mardy Grothe, Ph.D., is a psychologist, marriage counselor, and management consultant. Coauthor of three business books, he has been extensively interviewed on radio and television, on topics from problem bosses to the art of the insult. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Publishing Group; Reissue edition (February 26, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 126 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0142000574
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0142000571
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 12 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.99 x 5.08 x 0.34 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,052,972 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,498 in Puns & Wordplay
- #1,747 in Words, Language & Grammar Reference
- #1,754 in Quotation Reference Books

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Dr. Mardy Grothe is a retired psychologist, management consultant, and platform speaker. After receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia University, he lived and worked in the Boston area until 2004, when he and his wife Katherine Robinson moved to North Carolina. Since 2011, they have lived in Southern Pines, NC, a vibrant community with an award-winning community newspaper, a thriving independent bookstore, and three wonderful public libraries.

A lifelong quotation collector, Grothe has published seven previous quotation anthologies. Known simply as “Dr. Mardy” to his many fans worldwide, he was hailed by Fred Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations as “one of the most profound and popular quotation-book authors of all time.” His books include:

-Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You (1999)

-Oxymoronica (2004)

-Viva la Repartee (2005)

-I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like (2008)

-Ifferisms (2009)

-Neverisms (2011)

-Metaphors Be With You (2016)

Grothe is also the creator of Dr. Mardy’s Dictionary of Metaphorical Quotations (DMDMQ), the world’s largest online database of metaphorical quotations, with over 40,000 quotations—all rigorously sourced—and organized into over 2,500 categories. About DMDMQ, Dr. Fuad Jaleel, a Wikipedia activist and administrator at Malayalam Wikiquote said, "Generations to come will scarce believe that ever in the history of collections of literary quotes has so much been done for so many by a single man."

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Roger Carrier

A Super Fun Read

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2007

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Note: I made some Mormon angry because of my negative reviews of books out to prove the Book of Mormon, and that person has been slamming my reviews.

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If you love words and their clever use, you will love this book. Dr. Grothe even has a website for new examples of chiasmus (two or more lines that follow a parallel structure). Here is a fine example of chiasmus.

The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge answered one of his critics with the following chiasmus:

"I will concede your general rule that every poet is a fool.
But as your book serves to show it, not every fool is a poet."

I have to repeat the example of one Amazon reviewer, who quoted this line about the Hemingway centennial:

"Only in the case of Hemingway could the century of the writer be more celebrated than the most celebrated writer of this century."

An historical note!

Mormons have claimed to have found chiastic sentence structures in the Book of Mormon (1830), claiming also that chiasmus was unknown in Joseph Smith's day. The truth is that the chiastic structures found in the Bible were well-known to Bible readers--one book containing examples of parallelisms in "Hebrew poetry" was even advertised on the front page of Joseph Smith's hometown of Palmyra New York (Thomas Hartwell Horne, "An Introduction to the Knowledge and Critical Study of the Holy Scriptures").

The other fact is that Joseph Smith probably did not intentionally produce any chiastic sentence structures as he dictated the Book of Mormon to his scribe, who sat behind a curtain unable to see the gold plates.

Chiastic structures are found in the introduction to the Book of Mormon (admittedly written by Joseph Smith, and in his other writings). Joseph Smith was so repetitious that these unintentional structures are occasionally found (Mormons also delete elements that don't fit in their search for things that "Joseph Smith could not have known").

See my review of "Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon." Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon

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As Dr Grothe explains William Safire introduced the term contrapuntal to describe this reversal of the order of words, using an ABBA form, although there are more elaborate ones. The more common description is chiasmus.

For example Kennedy said: Let us never (A)negotiate out of (B)fear, but let us never (B)fear to (A) negotiate. You can probably remember the more famous Kennedy quote.

Joseph Kennedy also had a quote: 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.'

The Mark Twain quote: "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's ...................

From the TaoTe Ching: Wise men don't need to prove their point, Men who need to prove their point aren't wise.

If you're like me, you will really enjoy this, and learn how to construct your own memorable little quotations.

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Awesome, fun read. Perfecting for reflecting or while at the gym!

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2020

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I loved this title and adored the book itself even more! You don’t have to enjoy in order and it’s brilliant no matter where or when you pick it up.

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2015

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This book is merely a collection expressions loosely categorized as chiasmus. There is little to no scholarly discussion of origines nor is any historical context provided. I am extremely disappointed. Embarrassed to have sent a copy to a friend before I previewed it.

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read slowly to enjoy

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2014

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Even the author advises to read in small sections, I am did just that, a great book for the "library" reading.
The author is a great perfectionist in his way of writing, he makes it all have meaning.
Thoroughly enjoyable!

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M.A. Bell

Brain candy

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2007

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I am enjoying this book in bits and pieces. If you don't have time for full committment to a novel, this book is easy to read a bit, think about a bit, and go back to later.

And, I have the next two books waiting in the wings for when I finish this one. Plus, I get a new batch via e-mail each week.

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I enjoy all books in this Mardy Grothe series

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2015

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I enjoy all books in this Mardy Grothe series! This one is such fun, too! I've given it away as a gift and also have my own copy.

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