Top 100 Excuse Quotes
#1. A child is a best story teller if it is encouraged to do so. Parents shouldn't get confused between a lie and an excuse. They should let their children open for excuses and see how many fantasies come into existence.
Anurag Bhatt
#2. When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.
Alexandra Bracken
#3. Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self. Instead, use unfairness as a starting point to be sure that your actions are the best you can muster, and find peace in navigating your time here with grace and humor whenever possible.
Valerie Plame
#4. Each excuse let me learn about myself, let me discover entire worlds of surprising possibilities. Each one led me to more and more love.
James Altucher
#5. Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
Anna Lindh
#6. Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
Simon Travaglia
#7. When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#8. There should not be any excuse. If we don't like our heritages, we've the power to change them for good. Let's go beyond using lame excuses...
Assegid Habtewold
#9. My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.
Tom Verlaine
#10. Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.
Tom DeMarco
#11. My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
Mary Garden
#12. Her mom met him when he came to clean their pathetic excuse for a pool.)
Rainbow Rowell
#13. Excuse me," she said, her voice tight. "But if I'd known there was going to be a firearms examination at the end of the kidnapping, by God, I would have studied for it!
Tara Janzen
#14. Working from home or going on maternity leave is no excuse to let go of your look. The more you schlep around in drawstring pants and tees, the less you're going to be able to pull yourself together when necessary.
Nina Garcia
#15. Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
Thomas Jefferson
#16. When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?
J.K. Rowling
#17. But doesn't make an apology, it makes an excuse of your behaviour
Dorothy Koomson
#18. As far back as I can remember, Beatrice and Glory been usin' Jesus as an excuse to be bitches.
Edward Kelsey Moore
#19. Ummmm, Excuse me, Cokey McWhoreslut?
T. Torrest
#20. Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.
Mitt Romney
#21. Violence in nature is one thing, but among civilized mankind, what excuse is there?
Dorothy Dunnett
#22. I don't have the time is not an excuse, it's a cop-out- make the time!
J.P. Willson
#23. Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
William Blake
#24. You must excuse my gruff conduct," the watchdog said, after they'd been driving for some time, "but you see it's traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious.
Norton Juster
#25. It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.
Richelle Mead
#26. You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
Sam Shepard
#27. Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise.
Paul Adefarasin
#28. These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.
Phyllis Bentley
#29. Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.
Arthur Ashe
#30. He teaches how to void excrement and urine and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. Excuse me,' he said. 'I know this is a personal question. But are you clinically insane?'
'Possible, but very unlikely. Why?
Neil Gaiman
#32. Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war, he said.
-Baron Arald
John Flanagan
#33. For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#34. The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.
Shirley Chisholm
#35. Innocence is no excuse in the eyes of the Law.
Leon Garfield
#37. We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.
Bryan Batt
#38. We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
Barbara Jordan
#39. His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend ME so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it.
Jane Austen
#40. The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.
Jane Addams
#41. Just because the world is falling apart around me is no excuse for a lack of professionalism.
Evan Currie
#42. A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
Mikhail Bakunin
#43. There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would say that, as with many English, the moment is somewhat delayed.
John Le Carre
#44. It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken
Walter Dean Myers
#45. The truth is no excuse for a boring story".
Michael Dorn
#46. In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.
Richard J. Maybury
#47. I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
Vince Neil
#48. that your hearers shall either yield to your Lord or be without excuse, and that this shall be the immediate result of the sermon now in hand.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#50. Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.
Karl Shapiro
#51. Excuse me while I go bleach my face.
Elle Casey
#52. Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
Claude Debussy
#53. Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
Wm. Paul Young
#54. The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
Soren Kierkegaard
#55. I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?
Beatrice Sparks
#56. Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. Mencken
R.K. Lilley
#57. Not receiving a request through the entitled route is no excuse for not serving it.
Pawan Mishra
#58. Tell me, are you still hung up on that boy?' 'Excuse me?' Schuyler asked, holding a test tube. 'Nothing.' Kingsley shrugged innocently. 'If that's how you like to play it.
Melissa De La Cruz
#59. I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#60. Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.
Maureen Corrigan
#61. Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz
#62. I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them.
... Lucy
Jane Green
#63. CHARADE PARADE
A 'Special Day' once a year creates an excuse for neglect on the other 365 days for mothers, fathers & veterans
Kamil Ali
#64. I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle.
Alain Ducasse
#65. There's never a good excuse for not doing anything -
Will Schwalbe
#66. Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole.
Ne-Yo
#67. When faced with certain death, running is sensible, but I think a man can make an unhealthy habit of it. Running can take on an importance of its own and become an excuse to avoid living a normal life.
Michael J. Sullivan
#68. That was an explanation, not an excuse.
John Jakes
#69. Don't let a busy life or electronic communication gadgets be your excuse for excess solitude - it's a talent, but a rare one, to make yourself laugh.
Mireille Guiliano
#70. There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
Clarence Darrow
#71. Maybe you don't like your job. Maybe you didn't get enough sleep. Nobody likes their job; nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life. You know there's no escape and there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
Ani DiFranco
#72. We imitate each other with slavish devotion and our most strenuous efforts are put forth to try to say the same thing that everyone around us is saying - and yet to find an excuse for saying it, some little safe variation on the approved theme or, if no more, at least a new illustration.
A.W. Tozer
#73. The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.
Jerry Scott
#74. You wouldn't know hardship if it kicked you in the teeth, and believe me, it does that a lot. So excuse me if I don't feel sorry for either of you.
Victoria Aveyard
#75. I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.
Heather Mills
#76. Churchill was in the lavatory in the House of Commons and his secretary knocked on the door and said: Excuse me Prime Minister, but the Lord Privy Seal wishes to speak to you. After a pause Churchill replied: Tell His Lordship: I'm sealed on The Privy and can only deal with one shit at a time
Winston S. Churchill
#77. But I was held down to earth by being constantly reminded that the world expects much of the gifted and that having talent is never an excuse for not using it.
Tove Jansson
#78. Excuse me. I think you must've accidentally used the wrong pronoun."
The growl that rumbled up out of his chest was loud enough to rattle the water glass on the bedside table.
"Fine, you can stand in the corner and cheer while I kill him.
Nalini Singh
#79. How could I sit here and ask this stranger to help me pick up the facts of my life? The shopping bags had burst and all my things were rolling out over a packed pavement with me scurrying after them, stooping and bumping and tripping: Excuse me, I'm sorry. Could you just ... Excuse me.
Steven Hall
#80. I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'
Tao Okamoto
#81. Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse.
(Mom - to Lara Lington)
Sophie Kinsella
#82. People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.
Maynard James Keenan
#83. There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.
Bill Nelson
#84. There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#85. Now if you gentlemen," she looked at Briec, "and whatever
you are, will excuse me.
G.A. Aiken
#86. Your Crystal Clear vision should provide you a glimpse of a new universe and turn your excuse for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of resources for success.
Farshad Asl
#87. I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#88. Is the most pitiful word in history, and it's a lame excuse,
Cameron Jace
#89. Right now capitalism is winning hands down. It wins every time the need for economic growth is used as the excuse for putting off climate action yet again, or for breaking emission reduction commitments already made.
Naomi Klein
#90. But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.
Lauren Oliver
#91. Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.
Christine Pelosi
#92. Two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.
Will Schwalbe
#93. I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
Milton Friedman
#94. Life is a game.
You win or lose.
Everything else is a compromise and an excuse.
Rajesh Sarna
#95. Skylar's obviously into that Chris dude, I saw them in his sorry excuse for a truck, should have totaled it when I had the chance,
Heather Demetrios
#96. The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to get them on the front page. You can ask any question you want, get any answer you want, and then run around with that as a news story.
Rush Limbaugh
#98. Please excuse my little sister. She's got quite an imagination.
Annie, you're just jealous because I come up with great stories and you're so boring.
Janice Hanna
#99. Give out of your surplus; support someone who's lacking. Give out a little even when lacking; it'll make someone lucky ... Have no excuse not to give!
Israelmore Ayivor
#100. A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors.
Frank Herbert
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