#offense

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#forgiveness #god #into #kisses #like

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#foundation #future #lay #offense

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#cannot #high #i #me #my soul

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#ask #capital #consider #did #even

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#anybody #cover #creed #down #guitar

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem. ↗

— John Avlon

#hitler #offense #only #part #party

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#decency #doing #giving #injury #justice

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#assigns #because #enough #feel #few

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#army #associated #away #ball #been

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, so that they may be relished the more. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#dealt #drop #give #handed #less