Shun

Famous quotes containing the word shun:

“I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“What then in love can woman do?
If we grow fond they shun us.
And when we fly them, they pursue:
But leave us when they’ve won us.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)

“Why do we then shun death with anxious strife?
If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?”
—Joseph Blanco White (1775–1841)