Top 40 Poor Excuse Quotes
#1. Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
Charles Dickens
#2. I love you," he said. "It's a poor excuse for what I'm doing, but it's still true.
Stephenie Meyer
#3. I wasn't mad at you. I just have a bad habit of lashing out at those I care about. It's a piss poor excuse, I know, but I am sorry, he said, enveloping me in his arms.
Jamie McGuire
#4. Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes.
Ramsey Campbell
#5. Level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting
Elif Shafak
#6. Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
Edgar Bergen
#7. Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.
Jose N. Harris
#8. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera
#9. And then she was gone, disappearing into the nearby stacks like a rabbit taking to its hole, and he was left with a computer he didn't know how to use, words he could barely read, and the knowledge that he wasn't just a killer.
Most of the time, he was a pretty poor excuse for a person, too.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#10. I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?
Mark Zupan
#11. I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#12. Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere.
Rebecca Wells
#13. We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.
Kris Carr
#14. Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose.
A.J. Flowers
#15. Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns.
Triple H
#16. Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
Henri Rousseau
#17. People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.
LeCrae
#18. It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.
Andrew Weil
#19. I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.
Margaret Culkin Banning
#20. Those Puritans would spice the Gallic stew of upper Maine for years, causing no end of trouble to Agnes, who, to be fair, was a witch and a succubus and everything else they ever called her, but that's no excuse for being such poor neighbors, when you think about it.
Catherynne M Valente
#21. The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.
Matthew Henry
#22. The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born.
Auliq Ice
#24. Status symbols are poor excuses for values.
Mary Browne
#25. My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!
Mark Haddon
#26. The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.
Win Butler
#27. He's weeping, his face dissolving in his hands. It's exhausting. People hiding behind the asteroid, like it's an excuse for poor conduct, for miserable and desperate and selfish behavior, everybody ducking in its comet-tail like children in mommy's skirts.
Ben H. Winters
#28. Wearing shorts is a huge perk. I think it's probably one of the reasons people become mailmen. You also get to drive in that vehicle that should be illegal in the United States, where the steering wheel is on the other side. They have no rules! They are the punk rock of government jobs.
Jimmy Fallon
#29. All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.
Patricia A. McKillip
#30. When we remember someone as a drunk, a liar, a bully, we're only creating an excuse for our own poor behavior.
Chuck Palahniuk
#31. Maybe you're going insane."
"Maybe," agreed Kernel.
"I was joking."
"I wasn't.
Darren Shan
#32. Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.
Alfred Stieglitz
#33. The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs.
Roland Merullo
#34. People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.
Marcel Proust
#35. I can do nothing without His help. Oh, Lord, what ignorance thinking everything was wealth.
Venus Angelica Perez
#36. I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
Kailash Satyarthi
#39. Even if you were taken out of school for want of money, Hugh. It's no excuse for false values. The world is full of poor people who understand that love and friendship are more important than riches - Maisie Greenbourne
Ken Follett
#40. Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.
Charles Dickens
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