Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Quotations
Excuse
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
