An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Bad excuses are worse than none.
Don't make excuses, make good.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
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.
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.
Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon — the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.