Excuse Quotes

1674 Excuse quotes by 1175 unique authors

If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham,… — Harry Crews
Excuses are tools of the incompetent — Mike Tomlin
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes. — Douglas Coupland
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward. — Alexandra David-Neel
The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance,… — Alexander Alekhine
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might… — Edmund White
One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is… — Anne Lamott
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get… — C S Forester
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie. — Billy Sunday
Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life. — Joris-Karl Huysmans
There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing… — Brandon Stanton
Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure — Dean Cavanagh
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity forâ€”Doing. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to… — James Young
You can make it your excuse, or you can make it your story. — Isaiah Austin
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn. — Charles Lederer
He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else. — Samuel Foote
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse… — Margaret Culkin Banning
Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no… — Rick Santorum
I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my… — Ashley Rickards

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