Excuses

(242 votes)   If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(200 votes)   Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(172 votes)   Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(154 votes)   The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(114 votes)   Don't make excuses, make good.

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(111 votes)   An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(110 votes)   To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
1941-, American Author, Publicist

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(85 votes)   No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

A. A. Milne
1882-1956, British Born American Writer

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(76 votes)   There is a difference between Excuses and Reasons, I give reasons so you know why; while others give excuses thinking they will be excused!

Jeanette Harkins
College student

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(75 votes)   He who excuses himself, accuses himself.

Gabriel Meurier

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(72 votes)   It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse
1881-1975, British Novelist

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(72 votes)   There is a difference between Excuses and Reasons, I give reasons so you know why; while others give excues thinking they will be excused!

Jeanette Harkins
College student

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