Shuns Quotes

#1. Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

Samuel Johnson

#2. The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

Edmund Waller

#3. The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Jean De La Bruyere

#4. I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

William Shakespeare

#5. Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

Laozi

#6. The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.

Abu Nuaym

#7. So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#8. The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

Octavio Paz

#9. A club like Bayern Munich, which shuns debt, is in fact missing a trick. Bayern could easily borrow a few hundred million dollars to make itself invincible against human opposition on the long term.

Simon Kuper

#10. And the honour you did me, no man could have been more sensible of; I am ignorant, therefore, how I have been so unfortunate as to forfeit it:-but, at present, all is changed! you fly me,-your averted eye shuns to meet mine, and you sedulously avoid my conversation.

Fanny Burney

#11. Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

Pierre Corneille

#12. Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

Moliere

#13. He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

William Shakespeare

#14. Virtue which shuns, the day.

Joseph Addison

#15. What angers me are all those kings who are fabled for the heaps of gold in their coffers, and their freedom from trouble and pain. I have a different vision. I say that the true leader shuns luxury and ease. Once in power, he should want to work harder than ever.

Xenophon

#16. Art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

Dore Ashton

#17. Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

Samuel Johnson

#18. A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

William Shakespeare

#19. An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Jean De La Bruyere

#20. We live in a society that shuns guilt, hardly knows it. It is drummed into us: "Don't feel guilty." No one wants to pay the price of reconciliation, of atonement, of forgiveness.

Robert Dykstra

#21. The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.

Bhartrhari

#22. The sage shuns excess, shuns grandiosity, shuns arrogance.

Lao-Tzu

#23. He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.

Desiderius Erasmus

#24. How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

Homer

#25. As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.

John Dryden

#26. When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

Corrie Ten Boom

#27. Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

B.C. Forbes

#28. Horror does not need the dark, and sometimes a truly evil deed shuns the shadows.

Philip Kerr

#29. The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely - which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

Sydney J. Harris

#30. Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.

Blaise Pascal

#31. the only failure that cannot be excused is the failure to act on an injustice or to right a wrong. Those are the failures history shuns because the people who stand by and allow evil to occur are very nearly as bad as the evil-doers themselves." Archer

April White

#32. He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

George Chapman

#33. A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#34. Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Michel De Montaigne

#35. We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [ ... ] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

Maimonides

#36. For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

Victor Hugo

#37. Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

David J. Schwartz

#38. Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

Niccolo Machiavelli