Not miscalculation, bad strategy is the active avoidance…

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

— John Whiting

“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.”

— Ruth Padel

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

— James Richardson

“People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.”

— Silvia Hartmann

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be…

— Charles M. Blow

I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by…

— David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

— Deepak Chopra

You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

— Frederick Lenz

“If you love stress, practice avoidance.”

— Sharon Rowe

I've been trying to avoid my problems, and I don't know what to do. I get high, but when I come down, my problems…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but…

— Scott Stossel

I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags…

— Dora Russell

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

— Mary McCarthy

“Most of us will do anything to avoid facing ourselves”

— Lolly Daskal

The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of…

— Epicurus