Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

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.

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.