EXCUSE

Related Subjects: Evasion, Forgiveness, Sophistry

1. Better a bad excuse, than none at all.—WILLIAM CAMDEN, Remains
   

2. Apologizing—a very desperate habit—one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.—O. W. HOLMES, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
   

3. Don't make excuses—make good.—ELBERT HUBBARD, Epigrams
   

4. Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.—IBYCUS
   

5. He who excuses himself accuses himself.—GABRIEL MEURIER, Tresor des Sentences
   

6. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse.—MILTON, Lycidas
   

7. To him she hasted, in her face excuse
   Came prologue, and apology too prompt.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

8. Bad excuses are worse than none.—Proverb
   

9. You may often make excuses for another, never for yourself.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

10. You patch'd up your excuses.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra

11. And oftentimes excusing of a fault
    Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

12. I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
    I see that the elementary laws never apologize.—WALT WHITMAN, Song of Myself