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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects read more
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.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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.
No one ever excused his way to success.
No one ever excused his way to success.
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.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
