(507 quotes found)
“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures”
Michel de Montaigne
“No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else”
Katharine Graham
“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.”
Denis Healey
“Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.”
William Blake
“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”
William Penn
“Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise”
Welsh Proverb
“I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.”
Sarah Silverman
“I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.”
Lord of The Rings
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.He may avoid suffering and sorrow,But he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live.Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.Only a person who risks is free.”
William Arthur Ward