“there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it.”

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Dale Carnegie98

American writer and lecturer 1888–1955

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.”

Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-born American writer

Quoted by Granville Hicks in The Living Novel: A Symposium (Macmillan, 1957; digitized version in 2006), p. ix
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“I heard that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.”

Kerry Cohen (1970) American writer

“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)

“The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.”

Boyle Roche (1736–1807) Irish politician

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]

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen (1898), p. 370 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435065322687?urlappend=%3Bseq=458: "If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie." Other versions of the saying were repeated in several of Hubbard's later writings.