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
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-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
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
