He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Excuse
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
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
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
