Funny Oxymoron and Oxymoron Quotes

Funny Oxymoron Examples
Given below is a oxymoron list, some of which you might have used inadvertently and some as a pun or paradox.

• Accurate estimate

• Act naturally

• All alone

• Appear invisible

• Awfully nice

• Bad luck

• Big baby

• Born dead

• Brief speech

• Clearly confused

• Clearly misunderstood

• Climb down

• Common difference

• Confirmed rumor

• Constant change

• Controlled chaos

• Current history

• Deliberate mistake

• Exact estimate

• Exact opposite

• Expressive silence

• Falsely true

• Farewell reception

• Found missing

• Fully empty

• Genuine imitation

• Genuinely fake

• Growing small

• Known secret

• Least favorite

• Liquid gas

• Little giant

• Mercy killing

• Modern history

• Objective opinion

• Plastic glasses

• Practical Joke

• Preliminary conclusion

• Random pattern

• Science fiction

• Small crowd

• Speed limit

• Suicide victim

• Terribly good

• Timeless moment

• True story

• Typically unusual

• Undesirable attraction

• Unsung hero

• Virtual reality

Oxymoron Quotes
Here are some oxymoron examples, this time coming from some of the most popular individuals the world over.

• "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." - George Bernard Shaw.

• "I can resist anything, except temptation." - Oscar Wilde.

• "Simplicity is not a simple thing." - Charles Chaplin.

• "Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." - Wendell Johnson.

• "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep." - W.C. Fields.

• "Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it." - Irene Peter.

• "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." - Samuel Goldwyn.

• "The building was pretty ugly and a little big for its surroundings." - Steinbeck.

• "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." - Mark Twain.

• "To lead the people, walk behind them." - Lao-Tzu.