Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Excuse
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
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
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
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
