A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Avoid entertaining evil intentions.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“Avoid evil, particularly if they're attractive members of the opposite sex.”
“Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.”
Source: Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living
“Avoid expectations at all costs.”
“Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.”
“Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.”
“Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate, you will have bad time Reminder 14.”
“Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.”
Source: Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia
“Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.”
Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.”
“Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce.”
“Avoid foods you see advertised on television.”
Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.”
“Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.”
“Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.”
“Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.”
“Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.”
“Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.”
Source: The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies
“Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.”
“Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just as foolish as dumping your entire savings into the market thinking you'll make a quick buck.”
“Avoid hating people because you might have destroyed the bridge you have just used to cross the river; you'll need that bridge to cross again when returning!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you a more compassionate peaceful person. Refuse to open your mind to other people's trash. Tune out anything that promotes conflict or controversy. This can infect you with a mind virus of cynicism or defeat, and you won't even know it!”
“Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.”
“Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.”
“Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.”
Source: Beating the Street
“Avoid hyper-scheduling yourself so you have free time to do something creative or perhaps to do nothing at all.”
Source: Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters
“Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.”
“Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.”
“Avoid interacting with fake people, it's painful for your brain.”
“Avoid interacting with fake people, it's painful for your mind”
“Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.”
“Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.”
“Avoid judging others, because nobody knows the beauty and the weight of what it means to be who they are.”
“Avoid judging others by trying to understand others and their concepts of love and care.”
“Avoid jumping into conclusion. This may cause your idea fractured!”
Source: Scientific Computing in Python
“Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.”
“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”
“Avoid letting circumstances control your decisions and dictate your actions, thereby controlling your life.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Avoid letting circumstances dictate and control your thoughts.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“Avoid letting outside influences have a chance to affect your thoughts.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.”
“Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out.”
“Avoid living a life where you're dead.”
“Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year.”
“Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.”
“Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.”
“Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Avoid making long term decisions based on temporary circumstances.”