Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Excuse
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
