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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.