#excuse

Don't make excuses. They're pointless. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#life-lessons #life

We made love like a half a minute. I brought the thirty seconds, and she provided the excuse as to why she didn’t have enough time to have sex with me.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#funny #humor #love #relationships #sex

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

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse. ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#i #limitations #respect #them #use

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

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. ↗

— Herman Cain

#achieve #back #because #being #excuse

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls. ↗

— Herman Cain

#am #american #american people #believe #blame

You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it? ↗

— Howie Carr

#allow #argument #blogs #blood #cry