“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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American writer and lecturer 1888–1955Related quotes
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.”
“The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.”
Birgitte Trahelion
(15 October 1994)
“The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.”
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.”
Misattributed
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.
“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."”
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.”
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. XI