If I were _____, would I be showing you this one? Abraham Lincoln
Everybody _____ed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not _____ing now. Bob Monkhouse
Clothes make the man. _____ people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are _____. Winston Churchill
He's a writer for the _____— the _____ of four to eight. Dorothy Parker
I also remember something that Thomas Jefferson once said. He said, “We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.” And ever since he told me that, I’ve stopped _____. Ronald Reagan
When I was a kid, my parents moved a lot, but I always _____ them. Rodney Dangerfield
I haven't slept for ten days because that would be too _____. Mitch Hedberg
If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it's possible I may be too _____. Barack Obama
She thinks I’m too critical. That’s another _____ of hers. Lucille Bluth (Jessica Walter) in 'Arrested Development'
Behind every great man... is a woman _____ her eyes. Bruce Nolan (Jim Carey) in 'Bruce Almighty'
If I could just say a few words, I'd be a better public _____. Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) in 'The Simpsons'
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The Macmillan Dictionary defines a paraprosdokian as “a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to re-frame or re-interpret the first part.”
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