Quotes with excuse

  • Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
  • When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.
  • 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.

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  • Charlie McCarthy Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • C. S. Forester 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 him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Charlie McCarthy Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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  • Bo Bennett An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Alexander Pope An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Shakespeare And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aesop Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Greil Marcus Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Ben Johnston Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Every life is its own excuse for being.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carl Sagan Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 17 min 40 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Publilius Syrus Every vice has its excuse ready.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Oscar Wilde Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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