Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Quotations
Excuse
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
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-Adolf Hitler
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
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
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
