Quote by Jonathan Swift
A lie is an excuse guarded. - Jonathan Swift

A lie is an excuse guarded. – Jonathan Swift

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. – Jonathan Swift

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Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. – Jonathan Swift

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Carpe Diem
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. – Jonathan Swift

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

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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

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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

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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. – William Shakespeare

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Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. – Jim Rohn

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Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and Im acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesnt consist of a high school drama class. – Phil Lesh

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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. – Orville Wright

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I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think theres a point where one says, thats for family, thats for me. – Julie Andrews

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