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
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-Adolf Hitler
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
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
