Excuse Quotes

1674 Excuse quotes by 1175 unique authors

There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse. — Carroll Smith
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be… — Criss Jami
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to… — Charles de Lint
The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Only sad sacks and conformists need things like no kiss on New Year's Eve to remind them to feel lonely. They're as bad as the… — Julie Klausner
If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s… — Bill Vaughan
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. — Louisa May Alcott
When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then… — Vince Lombardi
Beauty is its own excuse. — John Greenleaf Whittier
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort… — John Dos Passos
There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they… — Billy Bob Thornton
There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
So many people say, "I just don't have a good job, or my marriage is not where it's supposed to be." Really it's excuse after… — Joel Osteen
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. — Benjamin Franklin
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. — Milton Friedman
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon… — Milton Friedman
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. — David Frum
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has… — J. William Fulbright
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. — Margaret Fuller
Bad excuses are worse than none. — Thomas Fuller
I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It… — Diane von Furstenberg
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… — William Lloyd Garrison
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do… — Frank Gehry
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special… — David Gerrold
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to… — Michael Gove

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