He who excuses himself accuses himself.

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

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.

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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.

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.

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.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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.