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
Frank Moore Colby 
Greg Ginn 
Fran Lebowitz 
Conor Oberst 
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James Weldon Johnson 
Barbara Jordan 
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The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
Bo Bennett 
41% of people like this quote
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison
39% of people like this quote
Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.
Michael Madsen
39% of people like this quote
The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.
Jon Corzine
33% of people like this quote
Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller
26% of people like this quote
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
4% 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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