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.

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.

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.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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.

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.