excuse quotes

• A lie is an excuse guarded. (Jonathan Swift) [excuse]
• We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. (Rudyard Kipling) [excuse]
• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself. (Henry Ward Beecher) [excuse]
• He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it. ( Charles II) [time/excuse]
• Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. (Bill Clinton) [excuse]
• I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. (John Donne) [death/take/excuse/exercise]
• We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [choice/excuse/business/evil]
• The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. (Benjamin Franklin) [present/excuse]
• We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. (Rudyard Kipling) [excuse]
• Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [willpower/excuse]
• Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [excuse]
• It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [more/sex/excuse]
• An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded. (Alexander Pope) [excuse/excuse]
• And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. (William Shakespeare) [excuse]
• Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice. (George Bernard Shaw) [excuse/cowardice]
• If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. (Henry David Thoreau) [more/excuse]
• Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life. (Oscar Wilde) [taste/excuse/life]
• We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. (Oscar Wilde) [thing/excuse/thing]
• I've never seen stunt casting that's actually funny: 'Oh, it's Shaq,' and then there's some horrible excuse for him to dunk, ... It's, like, 'We got a famous guy, and he's gonna be famous tonight' -- and it sucks! (Chris Rock) [excuse]
• Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. (Dennis Miller) [excuse/right/time]
• It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales through the eyes of Terry Gilliam, ... This film was actually an excuse for Terry to create an entire world. He does this so well with wide-angle lenses. Terry's frames are so densely packed with information that you can't take it all in the first time. (Matt Damon) [eyes/film/excuse/]
• It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales, through the eyes of Terry Gilliam, ... This film was actually an excuse for Terry to create an entire world. He does this so well with wide-angle lenses. Terry's frames are so densely packed with information that you can't take it all in the first time. (Matt Damon) [eyes/film/excuse/]
• It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales through the eyes of Terry Gilliam. This film was actually an excuse for Terry to create an entire world. He does this so well with wide-angle lenses. Terry's frames are so densely packed with information that you can't take it all in the first time. (Matt Damon) [eyes/film/excuse/]
• The movie is really a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales. It's also an excuse for Terry to create an entire world, which is what he does so well. He has his wide-angle lenses and extravagant production design. His frames are so densely packed with information. He directs like no one else. (Matt Damon) [movie/excuse/design/]
• “There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.” (Viggo Mortensen) [excuse/crazy/excuse]
• “There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.” (Bette Davis) [words/excuse/give/villains]
• “Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for halloween everyday.” (Gwen Stefani) [excuse]
• However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started. (Marilu Henner) [excuse]
• “Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.” (Ani DiFranco) [day/life/excuse]
• I wanted that raspy, painful sort of breathing that's hard to speak with. It gave me the excuse to have a lot of beer that night. (Jason Patric) [speak/excuse/beer/night]
• “She deserved to win this one, I was a little bit lucky, ... I have no excuse for serving like that.” (Elena Dementieva) [excuse]

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