The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Excuse
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
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
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
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
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
