The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Excuse
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
