(197 quotes found)
“The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.”
Dave Barry
“You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.”
Chinese Proverbs
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
Jo Godwin
“Time is the justice that examines all offenders.”
William Shakespeare
“Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.”
Jack Handy
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed”
Benjamin Franklin
“My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard”
David Allen
“It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.”
Mencius
“No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently -- and tolerantly -- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.”
Ambrose Bierce
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