Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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

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

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.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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.

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

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

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.

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.