“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
In parliament.
[Falkiner, C. Litton, Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century, 1902, Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, Sir Boyle Roche, p.229]
“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
Alan Dean Foster (1946) American fiction writer
“there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it.”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
“The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Birgitte Trahelion
(15 October 1994)
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) English writer
Source: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. VII