Some examples:
"Until you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you cannot head into a balanced attack" --
Mystery Men
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a
frontal lobotomy" --Randy Hanzlick
"I wish
champagne to my real friends, and real pain to my sham friends" --Edwardian Toast
"It's not the men in my life, but the
life in my men" -- Mae West
"How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising
that past age which our fathers abused,
and as constantly abusing that present age,
which our children will praise."
--Charles Caleb Colton
"
Lust is what makes you keep wanting to
do it,
even when you have
no desire to be with each other.
Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other,
even when you have no
desire to do it."
-- Judith Viorst
The subject of the
myriad forms and intricacies of chiastic constructions is taken up in the book
Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You by Dr. Mardy Grothe. He also runs the website at www.chaismus.com with all sorts of discussion, quizzes and mailing lists. The above quotes are taken from there.