Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Quotations
Excuse
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
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 nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
