Offend

Famous quotes containing the word offend:

“We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Sacred texts always offend reason.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting the Scripture, ‘If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)