Quotes about excuses

"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."

Byron, Lord on excuses   

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

Franklin, Benjamin on excuses
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"Bad excuses are worse than none."

Fuller, Thomas on excuses   

"To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on excuses   

"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on excuses
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"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

Kipling, Rudyard on excuses   

"He who excuses himself, accuses himself."

Meurier, Gabriel on excuses   

"No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature."

Milne, A. A. on excuses   

"An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded."

Pope, Alexander on excuses
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"The girl who can't dance says the band can't play."

Proverb, Yiddish on excuses   

"If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another."

Proverb, Yiddish on excuses   

"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."

Shakespeare, William on excuses
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"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."

Szasz, Thomas on excuses   

"Don't make excuses, make good."

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"It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville) on excuses   

"“I can think of no reason for reason”?"

Arnie Sherr on excuses