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Palindromes which show the creative manipulations of words

Palindromes are word phrases or numbers that read the same forward or backward.

Madam, I'm Adam. = (in reverse order) Madam, I'm Adam.

Madam, in Eden I'm Adam!

When Adam asked Eve who she was, she might have responded with the palindrome: "Eve, mad Adam, Eve!"

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama! (written by English author Leigh Mercer who is said to have written it for Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man who started construction on the Panama Canal).

Was it a cat I saw?

Step on no pets.

Draw pupil's lip upward.

Doc, note, I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.

Dog as a devil deified

Deified lived as a god.

So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so.

Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, finds boy eyeing bikini on bathing-girl.

You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?

Bores are people that say that people are bores.

Women understand men; few men understand women.

The famous palindrome, "NOON" when capitalized is viewed the same backward, forward, and upside down.

Pa's a sap.

Ma is a nun, as I am.

Live not on evil.

He lived as a devil, eh?

Won't lovers revolt now?

Ma is as selfless as I am.

A dog! A panic in a pagoda!

Was it a bar or a bat I saw?

Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Draw putrid dirt upward.

Do nine men interpret? Nine men, I nod.

"Reviled did I live," said I, as evil I did deliver.

Lew, Otto has a hot towel.

Niagara, O roar again!

Palindrome Pairs

An enthusiastic opera singer; avid diva

An uninspired poet; drab bard

Performing rodents; star rats

Half of a double boiler; top pot

An x-rated film; leer reel

Also see this unit about other pali-; palim-, palin- words.