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

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

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

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

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

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

No one ever excused his way to success.

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

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.