Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Offence and defense

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Ambrose Bierce



If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

Buddha (Gautama Buddha)



We are so desirous of vengeance that people often offend us by not giving offence.

Dorothee DeLuzy



When any one has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it.

Rene Descartes



Love the offender, yet detest the offence.

Alexander Pope



Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

William Makepeace Thackeray



“At every trifle take offence, that always shows great pride or little sense.”

Alexander Pope quotes (English Poet, 1688-1744)