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.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

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.

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.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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.

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.