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 tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-Adolf Hitler
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
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
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
