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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.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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.
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
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.
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.
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.
Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
No one ever excused his way to success.
No one ever excused his way to success.
