James,
Is there a formal term for Statements like Grouchos

” I wouldn’t join any club that would have me as a member”?

I know that Its not quite of the nature of ’ impossible statements’ ,but it is wonder-full, Oscar Wild:

” It is only shallow people who do not judge appearances, the mystery of the world is in the visible, not the invisible”


Sorry Oscar, its Wilde not wild


Not my morning Should read

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances, the mystery of the world is in the visible, not the invisibleā€