Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old opposite quotes, opposite sayings, and opposite proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.Suze Orman
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For every low there is an equal but opposite high.Norman Cousins
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty.Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.Thomas C. Haliburton
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.Hannah Arendt
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.Plato
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Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.Susan Cain
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.Plato
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.Sir Isaac Newton
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.Thomas Mann
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. Santayana
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There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz