AF  GL  MR  SZ Word Opposite A about exactly above below absence presence abundance lack to accept to refuse accidental intentional active lazy to add to subtract to admit to deny adult child advanced elementary affirmative negative afraid brave after before against for alike different alive dead all none always never ancient modern to agree to refuse, to argue to allow to forbid already not yet always never amateur professional to amuse to bore angel devil animal human to annoy to satisfy to answer to ask answer question apart together approximately exactly to argue to agree to arrest to free, to set free arrival departure to arrive to depart, to leave artificial natural to ask to answer asleep awake to attack to defend attack defence, protection attic cellar autumn spring awake asleep awful delicious, nice, pleasant B back in front of background foreground backward forward bad good bad luck fortune, good luck beauty ugliness before after to begin to end, to stop, to finish beginning end, ending behind in front of below above best worst better worse beautiful ugly big small, little birth death bitter sweet black white blunt sharp body soul to bore to amuse, to be interested in boring exciting, interesting to borrow to lend bottom top boy girl brave cowardly, afraid to break to mend, to fix broad narrow brother sister to build to destroy busy lazy to buy to sell C calm excited careful careless careless careful to catch to miss, to throw ceiling floor cellar attic centre outskirt, suburb certainly probably changeable constant cheap expensive child adult, grown-up children parents clean dirty clear cloudy clever stupid to close to open closed open cloudy clear, sunny, bright cold (adjective) hot cold (noun) heat to come to go comedy drama, tragedy complicated simple compliment insult compulsory voluntary to connect to separate consonant vowel constant changeable construction destruction to continue to interrupt cool warm correct false, wrong courage fear courageous cowardly cowardly brave, courageous to create to destroy cruel human, kind to cry (schreien) to whisper to cry (weinen) to laugh D to damage to repair danger security, safety dangerous safe dark light daughter son dawn dusk day night dead alive death birth, life deep shallow defeat victory defence attack to defend to attack delicious awful to deny to admit to depart to arrive departure arrival desperate hopeful to destroy to build, to create, to form destruction construction devil angel dictatorship republic to die to live different alike, equal, the same difficult easy dirty clean disease health distant near to divide to unite division unity to divorce to marry divorce marriage, wedding divorced married domestic foreign down up downstairs upstairs drama comedy dry humid, wet dull interesting dusk dawn E early late east west easy difficult, hard elementary advanced to emigrate to immigrate emigration immigration empty full to end to begin end beginning ending beginning enemy friend to enjoy to hate to enter to leave entrance exit equal different even odd evening morning everybody nobody everything nothing exactly about, approximately excited calm exciting boring to exclude to include exit entrance expensive cheap export import exposure shelter extreme moderate F to fail to succeed, to pass failure success false correct, true far near fast slow fat slim, thin fear courage female male few many final first to find to lose to finish to begin finish start first final, last to fix to break flat hilly floor ceiling to follow to lead to forbid to allow, to let, to permit for against foreground background foreign domestic foreigner native to forget to remember to form to destroy fortune bad luck forward backward to free to arrest to freeze to melt friend enemy front rear in front of back, behind full empty funny serious future past, present . He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. Confucius I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. Edith Sitwell  Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. Jules Renard Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. Madam Guizot I am no more humble than my talents require. Oscar Levant If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. Ted Turner Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. Kate Reid I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. Dorothy Day I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke Strong reasons make strong actions. William Shakespeare Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. John Wanamaker You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. Norman Douglas Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmur Stefansson Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Aesop It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. Anne Tyler People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. Brendan Francis Ask advice only of your equals. Danish Proverb Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. English Proverb Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. Erica Jong I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. G. K. Chesterton Never give advice unless asked. German Proverb Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. Hannah Whitall Smith I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry S Truman   Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. Sidney J. Harris In giving advice, seek to help, not please your friend. Solon Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. Spanish Proverb Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. Benjamin Franklin To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Bernard M. Baruch   Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. Betty Friedan There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. Carol Matthau Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. Cyril Connolly The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. Doris Lessing The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. Doug Larson Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. Ellen Glasgow The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. George Burns   I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. George Burns   About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. Gloria Pitzer   Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. Groucho Marx The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H. L. Mencken . My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli   It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. Charles Baudelaire Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. Cullen Hightower We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. Lyndon B. Johnson I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. Marshall McLuhan If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. Mo Udall Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. Walter Bagehot When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. William Wrigley Jr. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. Arnold Toynbee  There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. Bill Clinton   America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. Bobcat Goldthwaite There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious. Bono