Offer

Famous quotes containing the word offer:

“Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an encumbrance and a mirror of our own mortality. It takes a person of great heart to see past this fact and to see the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us.”
—Kent Nerburn (20th century)

“If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)