Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Excuse
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
