Pain Avoidance

Famous quotes containing the words pain and/or avoidance:

    What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)