Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Excuse
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-Adolf Hitler
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
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
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
