Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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

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

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

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

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

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

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

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.