Inoffensive Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
— Dean Acheson
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
— John Milton
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Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.
— Roderick Haig-Brown
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There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at…
— Albert Pike
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At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to…
— Dana Stabenow
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Kids raised on a culture of ‘We’re not going to keep score in the game because we don’t want anybody to lose.’ Or just ignoring…
— Chris Rock
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After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of…
— John Ralston Saul
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The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner…
— Celia Thaxter
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A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.
— Paul Theroux
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Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed…
— Joseph Butler
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Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the…
— Joseph Joubert
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Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
— Holly Lisle
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The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . .…
— John Kennedy Toole
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The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this…
— David Hume
Who Wrote These Inoffensive Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Inoffensive Quotes as follows: