Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Excuse
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
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
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
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
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
