It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Quotations
Excuse
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
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
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
