A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
Salvatore Quasimodo
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Steven Weinberg
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
Richard Reeves
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Abu Bakr
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
Larry Harvey
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
Judy Collins
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.
William Kirby
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
Evan Esar
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
Mason Cooley
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
W. Somerset Maugham
This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.
Betty Carter
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace
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