The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Excuse
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
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
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
