Famous quotes containing the word offers:
“In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.”
—French proverb.
George Bernard Shaw adapted this proverb in Heartbreak House, act 2: One turns the cheek: the other kisses it. One provides the cash: the other spends it.
“The Indian resists curiosity by a stony silence. The Negro offers a featherbed resistance. That is, we let the probe enter, but it never comes out. It gets smothered under a lot of laughter and pleasantries.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
“Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
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