Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Excuse
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
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
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
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
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
