ANTITHETICAL ASSERTIONS
(Or: Antithesis Rules - OK?)
Funny isn’t it, how one person’s opinion on any given
topic can differ so radically from that of another. Here, just to
prove that ‘antithesis rules’ are a few meat and poison
examples:
On Art
‘Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not
what he sees but what he feels, what he tells himself about what
he’s seen.’
Pablo Picasso.
‘Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and pastures blue
ought to be sterilised.’
Adolf Hitler.
On Marriage
‘A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems
too short.’
Andre Maurois.
‘A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner
on the table, than when his wife speaks Greek.’
Samuel Johnson.
On Pigeons
‘No bird sits in a tree more proudly than a pigeon. It looks
as though placed there by the Lord.’
Katherine Mansfield.
‘…rats with wings.’
Woody Allen.
On Goodness
‘Be ye kind to another, even as God in Christ forgave you.’
Ephesians 4:32.
‘Never give a sucker an even break.’
WC Fields.
On Bullfighting
‘The bullfight is very moral to me because I feel very fine
while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and immortality,
after it’s over I feel very sad but very fine.’
Earnest Hemingway.
‘There is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than
the sight of a lone man facing single- handedly a half ton of angry
pot roast.’
Tom Lehrer.
On Risk and Caution
‘If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck,
he surely meant us to stick it out.’
Arthur Koestler
‘Never be a pioneer. It’s the early Christian that
gets the fattest lion.’
Saki.
© Peter Clayfield, November 2005
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