Famous quotes containing the word avoid:
“A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“We used to speak of Western civilization with great satisfaction. Now we avoid the subject.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)