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| The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ~ Jules Renard |
| Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ~ Don Wilder and Bill Rechin |
| Don’t make excuses – make good. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
| He who excuses himself accuses himself. ~ Gabriel Meurier, |
| Several excuses are always less convincing than one. ~ Aldous Huxley, |
| Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. ~ Ani Difranco |
| How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away. ~ Bill Copeland |
| Don’t do what you’ll have to find an excuse for. ~ Proverb |
| No one ever excused his way to success. ~ Dave Del Dotto |
| Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. ~ Steven Grayhm |
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
~ William Shakespeare |
| Bad excuses are worse than none. ~ Thomas Fuller |
| A lie is an excuse guarded. ~ Jonathan Swift |
| Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher |
| If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. ~ Yiddish Proverb |
| We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ~ Marcus Fabius Quintilian |
| Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people’s excuses. ~ Hebbel |
| 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 |
| Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse. ~ Thomas Szasz, |
| Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ~ Edward R. Murrow |
| Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. ~ Bill Clinton |
We weave our excuses around events.
Thin, poor quality cloth of justification
Poor substitutes for the heavy tribal blankets
Once we wove to wrap our children.
~ Phillip Pulfrey, "Cloth," |
| Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure. ~ Ambrose Bierce |
| Every vice has its excuse ready. ~ Publilius Syrus |
| We are all manufacturers – some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses. ~ Author Unknown |
| One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people’s excuses for failure. ~ Robert Townsend |
| Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used. ~ Robert Brault |
| Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon – the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it. ~ Lord Byron |
| Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them. ~ Author Unknown |