Avoiding

Famous quotes containing the word avoiding:

“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)

“As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“So Sam enters the universe of sleep, a man who seeks to live in such a way as to avoid pain, and succeeds merely in avoiding pleasure. What a dreary compromise is life!”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)