Famous quotes containing the word avoid:
“Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to live single, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”
—E.L. (Edgar Lawrence)
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)