Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Excuse
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
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"
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-Adolf Hitler
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
