The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
Edsger Dijkstra

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
Branch Rickey

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
Ambrose Bierce

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.
John Shadegg

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
Condoleezza Rice

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln

We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.
Brian Griese

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.
Hayden Fry

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Charles Baudelaire

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
Oscar Robertson

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
Phaedrus