Excuse Quotes
1674 quotes by 1233 authors
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude…
— Hannah Arendt
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Excuse the mess but we live here.
— Roseanne Barr
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
— William Blake
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
— Aesop
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The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
— Alain de Botton
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The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
— George W. Bush
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Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
— Michael Caine
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When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I…
— Sophia Bush
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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses.…
— Octavia Butler
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People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to…
— Herman Cain
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The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of…
— Herman Cain
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
— Albert Camus
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Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction…
— Jack Canfield
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