Peace Offer

Famous quotes containing the words peace and/or offer:

“In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The greatest, or rather the most prominent, part of this city was constructed with the design to offer the deadest resistance to leaden and iron missiles that might be cast against it. But it is a remarkable meteorological and psychological fact, that it is rarely known to rain lead with much violence, except on places so constructed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)