"Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it."

Byron, Lord on Excuses
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

Franklin, Benjamin on Excuses
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"Bad excuses are worse than none."

Fuller, Thomas on Excuses
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"To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on Excuses
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"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on Excuses
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"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

Kipling, Rudyard on Excuses
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"He who excuses himself, accuses himself."

Meurier, Gabriel on Excuses
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"No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature."

Milne, A. A. on Excuses
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"An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded."

Pope, Alexander on Excuses
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"The girl who can't dance says the band can't play."

Proverb, Yiddish on Excuses
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"If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another."

Proverb, Yiddish on Excuses
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."

Shakespeare, William on Excuses
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"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."

Szasz, Thomas on Excuses
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"Don't make excuses, make good."

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"It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville) on Excuses
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