Eschew Quotes

#1. It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.

George R R Martin

#2. Product procedure ... must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.

Fred Brooks

#3. Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

Chanakya

#4. A good imagination doesn't eschew limitations, it embraces them!

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#5. When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#6. Eschew surplusage.

Mark Twain

#7. As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing will become a means for recording chatter.

Nicholas Carr

#8. The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.

Huang Po

#9. A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#10. An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

Chuck Jones

#12. Some eschew wine for their religion; others just don't cotton to it. A slew of Americans consider wine a fancy-schmancy treat for special occasions. They do not understand the concept of daily wine. It's as though you insisted on confetti and a swing-band at every meal.

Jennifer Rosen

#13. I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#14. O, Senator, drop your trousers! Loosen your cravat! Eschew your spats and step into that shallow, teeming world of mayflies and dragonflies and frogs' eyes staring eye-to-eye with your own, and the silty bottom. Cease your filibuster against the world God gave you.

Paul Harding

#15. What does this research tell us? It tells us that fiscally concerned strippers should eschew contraception and double up their shifts just before ovulation.

David Eagleman

#16. I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

Nikola Tesla

#17. Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

Ian Gardner

#18. Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#19. Naturally they don't eschew such simpler pleasures as love-making, sea-bathing, going to the pictures.

Albert Camus

#20. I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Fred Hoyle

#21. One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.

Bob Lutz

#22. Anyone who seeks to help others - whether by means of religion or by means of medicine - must eschew the use of force.

Thomas Szasz

#23. If you are unaware that the world is teeming with ineptitude from the beginning, you will develop a bitter countenance, and in turn others will eschew you.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#24. Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#25. May we not be as foolish as we are almost bound to be. If we cannot eschew hatred, at least let us eschew group hatred. May we see that we could have been born as each other. May we, in short, believe in humane logic and perhaps, in due course, love.

Vikram Seth

#26. Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.

Gene Logsdon

#27. It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

Albert Einstein

#28. Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

Roxane Gay

#29. Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Ernest Hemingway,

#30. Eschew all those beastly adjectives ...

Roald Dahl

#31. Amateurs ... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

Norman Mailer

#32. See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.

Sathya Sai Baba