Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Quotations
Excuse
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-Adolf Hitler
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
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
