Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Quotations
Excuse
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
