It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine
simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you.
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
The common damn'd shun their society.
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Always shun whatever may make you angry.
Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.
Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.
We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.
Americans like optimists and shun 'doomsayers.'
I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.
Interspersed in lawn and opening glades,
Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.
This restless world
Is full of chances, which by habit's power
To learn to bear is easier than to shun.
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.
Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,
I shun all signs of anchorage, because
The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.
Shun death, is my advice.
Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.
I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.
Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.
I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
[Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]
Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.
What shall I do to shun the snares of death?
Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.
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.
I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
Shun the incremental and go for the leap.
Shun all vice, especially card playing.
The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
There are many who would take my time. I shun them.
The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Anonymity is not necessarily something to shun; we don't have to achieve celebrity to make a mark on the world.
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
The Good and Great must ever shun
That reckless and abandoned one
Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.
Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.
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