Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Quotations
Excuse
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
