#excuse

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#live #may #only #peace #war

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#excuse #find #i #marble #me

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#been #circumstance #costume #excuse #i

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#every #every time #excuse #female #idleness

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#change #everyone #excuses #feel #make

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

— Bill Copeland

#excuse #how #live #once #only

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#benefit #casually #curious #doing #doing the right thing

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. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#day #enough #escape #excuse #get

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clutches #elsewhere #excuse #get #hearth

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#else #excuses #good #making #seldom