#excuse

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#crime #destiny #excuse #failure #fool

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away. ↗

— Bill Copeland

#excuse #how #live #once #only

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. ↗

— David Frum

#business #congress #conservative #decisions #excuses

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard! ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#earnest #excuse #heard #i #i am

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#constantly #died #excuses #father #great

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#good #make #right #two #wrongs

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#pretext #self-delusion #money

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#justification #change

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them. ↗

— John Wooden

#observation

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#convenient #deity #drunk #excuse #getting