“ Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 510
“ The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
- 270
“ If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass. ”
- Francois Rabelais- Copy
- 3K
“ For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who backwards looks.). ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 2K
“ A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ”
- Salvatore Quasimodo- Copy
- 1.3K
“ There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
- 2.5K
“ There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of thinking. ”
- Thomas Alva Edison- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint. ”
- Clare Boothe Luce- Copy
- 3K
“ If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 250
“ Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you. ”
- Paul Williamson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. ”
- Jack Schwartz- Copy
- 871
“ There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song. ”
- Miriam Makeba- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ”
- Alan Perlis- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing. ”
- John Clare- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. ”
- Sidney Madwed- Copy
- 3.3K
“ If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
- 899
“ It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. ”
- Norman Maclean- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and softly sits on your shoulder. ”
- Richard L. Lessor- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 1.1K
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