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.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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.

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.

No one ever excused his way to success.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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.