
“The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.”
Birgitte Trahelion
(15 October 1994)
Source: The House of the Four Winds (1935), Ch. III
“The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.”
Birgitte Trahelion
(15 October 1994)
To screenwriter Steve Kloves, in an interview by Lizo Mzimba (February 2003)
2000s
Essay on Experimentation
February 27, 1963, page 47.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]
“The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.”
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
“429. Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat; and hee that hath one sonne makes him a foole.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)