Sunday, November 18, 2012 – No Excuses
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. ~ Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. ~ Steven Grayhm
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ~ Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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
Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Every vice has its excuse ready. ~ Publilius Syrus
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie. ~ Billy Sunday
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
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ~ George Washington
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ~ Rudyard Kipling
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ~ Russell Baker
Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I’d have an excuse. ~ Jimmy Fallon
Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them. ~ John Wooden
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses ~ Amit Abraham
Leadership, leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. ~ Mitt Romney
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ~ Milan Kundera
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. ~ Gertrude Stein
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. ~ Margaret Fuller
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. ~ Cardinal Richelieu
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. ~ Steven Grayhm
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way. ~ Hedy Lamarr
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future but an excuse can last for life. ~ Eric Hoffer
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. ~ Alexander Pope
Excuse me while I kiss the sky. ~ Jimi Hendrix
And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself. ~ Murray Walker
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. ~ Henri Rousseau
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