Quotes of Excuse - somelinesforyou

“ And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I make no apologies for that - it was a joke. ”

- George Clooney

“ It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ”

- George Washington

“ He who excuses himself, accuses himself. ”

- Gabriel Meurier

“ God will pardon me. It's his business. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. ”

- Pope John Paul II

“ I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Friends are God's apology for relations. ”

- Hugh Kingsmill

“ We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. ”

- A.A. Milne

“ The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse. ”

- Jules Renard

“ God forgives us... Who am I not to forgive? ”

- Alan Paton

“ Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the mistake is to do it solemnly. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Bad excuses are worse than none. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Apologies have been made, but where is the atonement? ”

- James Kelly

“ Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. ”

- Florence Nightingale

“ Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. ”

- Irene Peter

“ I offer my apologies to those that were offended by my words. ”

- Dick Durbin

“ 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

“ No one ever excused his way to success. ”

- Dave Del Dotto

“ There's no justification for allowing the unfairly traded products. ”

- John Armstrong

“ Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. ”

- Bill Clinton

“ Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde. ”

- Oscar Wilde
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