Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Excuse
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
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
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
