Palindromes

A palindrome is a word or a phrase that has the property of reading the same in either direction. Spacing and punctuation do not matter.

English

 * Able was I ere I saw Elba.
 * Apocryphal response of Napoleon when supposedly asked at St. Elba if he could have eventually sacked London
 * Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439


 * Madam, I'm Adam.
 * Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439
 * To which she replied, Eve


 * A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!
 * Leigh Mercer, Notes and Queries, November 13, 1948


 * A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal – Panama
 * Guy Steele, Common LISP: The Language, Second Edition, 1984, ISBN 1555580416, p. 405 (computer-aided)


 * Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel (Lewd did I live, evil I did dwel)
 * John Taylor (1578–1653), in 1614.


 * No one made killer apparel like Dame Noon.
 * Jon Agee, as quoted in "Worldplay," by David Astle, Sydney Morning Herald (October 1, 2016), p. 21

Latin

 * Si Nummi immunis.
 * Translation (by William Camden): Give me my fee, and I warrant you free.
 * Facetiously known as the "lawyer's motto"
 * Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439


 * Sator arepo tenet opera rotas.
 * Translation: The sower Arepo holds the wheels with effort.
 * Alternative translation: The sower Arepo leads with his hand (work) the plough (wheels).
 * Known as the Sator Square
 * Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439


 * In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.
 * Translation: We go about in the night and are consumed by fire.
 * quoted in The concise Oxford companion to English literature, 2007