It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.
Tim Allen

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Denis Waitley

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
Denis Waitley

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
Chief Joseph

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz Kafka

Avoid running at all times.
Satchel Paige

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
Satchel Paige

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Alfred Hitchcock

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
William Penn

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
William Safire

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.
Morihei Ueshiba

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Roger Bacon

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
Marilyn vos Savant

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.
Sarah Silverman