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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie. – Billy Sunday

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. – Lord Byron

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them. – Author Unknown

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. – Benjamin Franklin

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people, to focus your energies on answers — not excuses. – William Arthur Ward

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. – Aesop

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. – George Washington

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. – Rudyard Kipling

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse. – Author Unknown

If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

Justifying a fault doubles it. – French Proverb

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours — it is an amazing journey — and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. – Bob Moawad

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. – Benjamin Franklin

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. – Russell Baker

The girl who cant dance says the band cant play. – Yiddish Proverb

If you dont want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. – Yiddish Proverb

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 Womens Movement. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. – A.A. (Alan Alexandra) Milne