A Quote by Izaak Walton

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

Izaak Walton

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Izaak Walton
English - Writer
August 9, 1593 - December 15, 1683

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

Jeffrey Archer

All offences come from the heart.

William Shakespeare

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Alan Paton

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

Alan Brazil

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.

Muqtada al Sadr

It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer!

Erica Jong

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

Idries Shah

If an employer decides to flout the law, it may be guilty of criminal offences and subject to serious financial liability.

Robert Rinder

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

Matthew Henry

Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.

Walter Savage Landor

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

Swami Vivekananda

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Edgar Allan Poe

I've had the liberty of having a lot of control in the offences I've been a part of because I get the game pretty well, and I pick things up fast.

Jordan Rodgers

Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a massive source of revenue.