Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it.”
“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]
“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
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”
“Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
Variant: I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.
“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 only way to avoid No Deal is to vote for a deal.”
Brexit: Corbyn tells May to rule out no deal at meeting https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47052227 BBC News (30 January 2019)
2010s, On Brexit
