He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Excuse
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
