The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Excuse
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
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
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
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
