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• Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it’s quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

  Rita Rudner

  Topics in Stupid

  Tags in Opposite, Woman, Think

• Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

  Honoré de Balzac

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Opposite, Word

• The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

  Tags in Authority, Tradition, Restraints, Opposite, Legality

• I had done my first picture and I didn’t have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

  Dick York

  Tags in Opposite, Stanley, Cowboy

• A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Tags in Opposite

• We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

  William James

  Tags in Opposite, Statement

• A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

  Thomas Mann

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Whose, Opposite

• The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

  Umberto Eco

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Perception, Opposite

• People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Opposite

• What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Belief, Knowledge

  Tags in Discovery, Opposite

• Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Tags in Opposite

• To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

  Henry Moore

  Tags in Opposite