Offense Quotes

405 quotes by 322 authors

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything. — Aristotle
There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and… — Plutarch
The bottom line is, as the season goes on, everybody becomes more comfortable. For a quarterback, it's more than just him. It's everybody else doing… — Kirk Ferentz
The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we… — Asa Hutchinson
He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater… — Brigham Young
Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions.… — Theodore Roosevelt
People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal… — Henri Nouwen
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through… — George Will
My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only… — Julie Klausner
Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away. — Hayden Fry
Those who easily forgive invite offenses. — Pierre Corneille
He who forgives readily only invites offense. — Pierre Corneille
He who pardons easily invites offense. — Pierre Corneille
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. — Clarence Darrow
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. — Rene Descartes
It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak. — Brett Favre
I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt… — Queen Latifah
What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I… — Alphonsus Liguori
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. — Abraham Lincoln
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop,… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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