There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. – Aesop

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. – P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse