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
Lewis B. Smedes 
Boutros Boutros-Ghali 
Ambrose Bierce 
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Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical.
William E. Geist 
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One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
Mark Spitz
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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
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The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.
Greg Ginn
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein
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The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
Sarah Palin
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What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
Jimmy Carter
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Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred Jarry
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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
Bette DavisGeorge WashingtonFran LebowitzTony Robbins AesopJimi HendrixPercy Bysshe ShelleyJimmy CarterHannah ArendtSarah PalinJames Earl JonesBarbara JordanSidonie Gabrielle ColetteMilton FriedmanThomas Kempis
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