Excuse Quotes

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

Worse, Fault, Oftentimes

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Rights, Individual

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

Failure, Single, Million

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Yourself, Anybody, Hold

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin

Present, Nor, Fault

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
Marilyn Monroe

Forward, Character, Word

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Jimi Hendrix

Kiss, While, Sky

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Henry David Thoreau

Humanity, Rather, Seem

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Tony Robbins

Life, Change, Power

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Pope John Paul II

Lie, Worse, Terrible

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins

Faith, Great, Belief

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. Mencken

Woman, Temptation, Weapon

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

Life, Nice, Sleep

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Aldous Huxley

Best, Nothing, Situation

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
Chris Rock

Life, Stupidity, Wish

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Thomas a Kempis

Love, Strength, Nothing

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing, Impossible, Often

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
Milton Friedman

Reason, Possible, Taxes

How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away.
Bill Copeland

Live, Strange, Away

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.
Mitt Romney

Government, Special, Less

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale

Success, Took, Gave

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce

Failure, Fool, Destiny

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Milton Friedman

Political, American, Choose

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell

Love, Used, Means

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce

Drunk, Getting, Convenient

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace, War, Live

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
William Blake

Christ, Shall, Criminals

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
Bo Bennett

Success, Best, Blame

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.
Tony Parsons

Someone, Down, Else

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