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"
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
