Antithesis and its example.

 Antithesis literally means opposite, it is usually the opposite of a statement, concept or idea. In a sentence, there is a pair of opposite words or statement or ideas.

For example:
1) Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
2) To err is human, to forgive divine.

3) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
4) Man proposes, God disposes. 

5) Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
6) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

7) Shut your mouth and open your eyes.
8) Everybody comes here but nobody listen here.

9) Many are called, but few are chosen.
10) In sickness he loved me, in health he abandoned.


11) Too black for heaven and yet too white for hell.
12) Sheep go to Heaven, goats go to Hell.

13) Should I stay or should I go now?
14) We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

15) Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit.
16) Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

17) That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
18) Let's agree to disagree. 

19) The sun so hot, I froze to death.
20) I close my eyes so I can see.

21) Money is the root of all evils, poverty is the fruit of all goodness.
22) Folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

23) Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
24) You're wrong, when it's right.

25) It rained all day and night.
26) Rude words bring about sadness, but kind words inspire joy.

27) In the brightest of days and in the blackest of  nights.
28) Burning a fire to stay cool.

29) God we must love and must hate ill.
30) United we stand, divided we fall.

31) He saved her, she killed him.
32) Man is a hater of truth, a lover of fiction.

33) Art is long, life is short.
34) Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care.

35) To do a right thing, do a wrong thing.
36) When we laugh, neighbors cry.

37) Give him freedom or give him death.
38) It was a lucky misfortune.

39) Some flowers open at night and closes during the day.
40) Children go for the sun and women for the moon.

41) You're easy on the eyes, Hard on the heart.
42) We may neither hate or love.