The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Excuse
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
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
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
