Peace Offer

Famous quotes containing the words peace and/or offer:

“Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)

“Sometimes my wife complains that she’s overwhelmed with work and just can’t take one of the kids, for example, to a piano lesson. I’ll offer to do it for her, and then she’ll say, “No, I’ll do it.” We have to negotiate how much I trespass into that mother role—it’s not given up easily.”
—Anonymous Father. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 3 (1992)