It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Quotations
Excuse
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
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
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
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
