Excuse Quotes

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. (Aesop)
The only excuse for God is that He does not exist. View quote
Stendhal
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. View quote
Russell Baker
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. (Ambrose Bierce)
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. View quote
Colette
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. View quote
Florence Nightingale
Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me. View quote
Bobby Fischer
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. View quote
Richard Dawkins
I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse. View quote
Stephen R. Donaldson
Excuse me while I kiss the sky. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. (Hannah Arendt)
The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one. View quote
Michael Madsen
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
📖 Excuse Proverbs