It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Quotations
Excuse
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
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
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
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
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
