Iata cateva maxime devenite celebre de-a lungul timpului:

Capra crapa piatra-n patru, piatra crapa piatra-n patru

Eu pup poala popii, popa pupa poala mea

Sase saci in sase saci

Pili-as cu pila lunga, pila-n punga, punga-n pila

Triedru tridreptunghic

Agatati-ai poamele calului de poalele podului

Un vultur sta pe-un pisc c-un pix in plisc

If a shipshape shipshop stocks six shishape shop-soiled ships, how many shipshape shop-soiled ships would six shipshape ship shops stock?

A noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Betty bought some butter, but she said, this butter's bitter' and a bit of better butter would make a better butter. So she bought a bit of butter better than the bitter butter and it made her butter better, so it was that Betty bought a bit of better butter

Three tree toads tied together tried to trot to town

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts, with barest wrists and stoutest boasts, he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts

Two witches had two watches. Which watch did which witch watch?

A tutor who tooted a flute tried to teach two teachers to toot. Said the two to the tutor 'is it harder to toot or tutor two tutors to toot?

Sheila uttered a sharp shrill shriek and shrunked from the shrivelled form that slumbered in the shadows

I slit the sheets. The sheets I slit are on the slitted sheets I slit.