Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Quotations
Excuse
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
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
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
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
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
