Top Excuse Quotes
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?
Jupiter Hammon
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington
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
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale 
89% of people like this quote
You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?
Jupiter Hammon
84% of people like this quote
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells
82% of people like this quote
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
76% of people like this quote
In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.
Scott Thompson
75% of people like this quote
I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right.
Queen Latifah
70% of people like this quote
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes
68% of people like this quote
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera
66% of people like this quote
Popular Excuse Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauWilliam ShakespeareBenjamin FranklinMarcus Tullius CiceroAmbrose BierceH. L. MenckenBertrand RussellHenry Ward BeecherRonald ReaganAldous HuxleyGertrude SteinWilliam BlakeBo BennettHedy Lamarr
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