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
In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.
Scott Thompson
David Blunkett 
James Young 
Anna Lindh 
Boutros Boutros-Ghali 
Robert Duvall 
Conor Oberst All Excuse Quotes
As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.
Deryck Whibley 
55% of people like this quote
I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.
Stephen R. Donaldson
55% of people like this quote
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
Alexander Alekhine
54% of people like this quote
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
Charles Lederer
54% of people like this quote
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu
54% of people like this quote
There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.
Jerry Rice
54% of people like this quote
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard
54% of people like this quote
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
Eric Bogosian
54% 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
Bette DavisGeorge WashingtonFran LebowitzTony Robbins AesopJimi HendrixPercy Bysshe ShelleyJimmy CarterHannah ArendtSarah PalinJames Earl JonesBarbara JordanSidonie Gabrielle ColetteRudyard KiplingPope John Paul II
More »