Excuse Quotes

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.

Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

No excuses. No explanations.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

Better a bad excuse, than none at all.

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.

There is no excuse for not trying.

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.

The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.

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 achieve.

Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo.

Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama’s deficit speech.

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.

My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

In a thing, they can create a pretext coined hundreds of excuses , but the truth is only one.

I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.” “Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.

Never ruin an appology with an excuse.

I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

We shouldn’t come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.