Self-Annihilating Sentences

Self-Annihilating Sentences --- S. Gorn

• This book fills a much-needed gap.
  
• Oh, the majesty of French Justice, which forbids rich and poor, alike, to sleep on park benches! ---Anatole France
  
• Way down deep he's shallow.
  
• I feel a lot more like I do now than I did when I came in.
  
• You don't think so, eh? That's your trouble! You don't think!
  
• You have the distinction of being the only one who is not exceptional.
  
• The main trouble with impossibility is that it is never total.
  
• I am going to be healthy if it kills me.
  
• Every Tom, Dick and Harry is called John.
  
• I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
  
• The trouble with you is that there's nothing wrong with you.
  
• Just because I have nothing to say is no reason why you shouldn't listen.
  
• The last time I took advice, it only worked because I changed it.
  
• The last time I saw him, he wasn't there.
  
• I gave you an unlimited budget, and you have already exceeded it!
  
• Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts.
  
• Hips on shoulders, place! -- As you were! Can't be done; hips down!
  
• Ignore this sign.
  
• It pays to buy things you dislike. They last much longer.
  
• No man can die properly without experience.

And my favorite: I have become more optimistic and now believe that things could get worse.