It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Quotations
Excuse
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
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
