Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Quotations
Excuse
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
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
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
