Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Quotations
Excuse
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
