Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Demosthenes

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
Sylvester Stallone

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
Jock Sturges

Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.
Jock Sturges

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
Jock Sturges

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
John Chrysostom

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Ivan Pavlov

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Michael Crichton

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
Loretta Lynn

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Andre Maurois

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow

A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.
Matthew Lesko

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.
Tim Robbins