The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Excuse
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
