Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Quotations
Excuse
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-Adolf Hitler
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
