If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.
Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.
A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hopethat it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.
Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes and on the world of beauty around us.
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
Shun death, is my advice.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that ideal, I am not for a moment suggesting that art should shun the 'dirt' of the world. On the contrary! the artistic image is always a metonym, where one thing is substituted for another, the smaller for the greater. To tell of what is living, the artist uses something dead; to speak of the infinite, he shows the finite. Substitution. . . the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.
If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.
Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
The common damn'd shun their society.