Famous quotes containing the word avoid:
“As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre, it will not suggest a disguise:—and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on—so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Die early and avoid the fate.
Of if predestined to die late,
Make up your mind to die in state.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)