The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Excuse
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
