Offered

Famous quotes containing the word offered:

“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
—Anonymous.

An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)

“Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.”
—Tommy Steele (b. 1936)

“The labourer is worthy of his hire.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Luke, 10:7.

Instructing his disciples to accept any hospitality offered to them.