Excuse Quotes

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

The devil made me do it.

We warn and adjure earnestly in the Lord faithful Christians of every condition that no one in the future dare to vex anyone, despoil him of his possessions, reduce to servitude, or lend aid and favour to those who give themselves up to these practices, or exercise that inhuman traffic by which the Blacks, as if they were not men but rather animals, having been brought into servitude, in no matter what way, are, without any distinction, in contempt of the rights of justice and humanity, bought, sold, and devoted sometimes to the hardest labour. Further, in the hope of gain, propositions of purchase being made to the first owners of the Blacks, dissensions and almost perpetual conflicts are aroused in these regions. We prohibit and strictly forbid any Ecclesiastic or lay person from presuming to defend as permissible this traffic in Blacks under no matter what pretext or excuse, or from publishing or teaching in any manner whatsoever, in public or privately, opinions contrary to what We have set forth in this Apostolic Letter.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

How do you forget that someone else is another person? No matter who they are. I don't think that's an excuse.

I think a lot of people want to blame their fathers for not being good enough when they were growing up. I think it can be an excuse for not coming to terms with your own problems.

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

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.