Quotes About Excuse

The devil made me do it!

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Magic" was not an answer; it was an excuse to avoid looking for one.

Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin is no amusing toy—it is a terror to be shunned! Learn, then, what constitutes sin in the eyes of God!

God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" [Psalm 14:1 KJV].

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Who better to blame it on than a fairy?

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

in those first years—and are reminded now—that people would excuse us for our poverty, for our lack of comforts and conveniences, but that they would not excuse us for dirt.

Two of our biggest delusions are that "loyalty" and "keeping promises" are admirable qualities. They are not. They are oft an excuse to do the wrong thing and to protect the wrong person because you are supposed to be "a man of your word" or have a bond with or allegiance to someone who deserves neither. Loyalty is too often used as a replacement for morality or ethics

Cousin Joshua was frustrated by the authorities when he fired upon the president of the University, who in his opinion was little more than a sewage disposal expert. This was no doubt true, but an idle excuse for assault with a deadly wapon. After much passing around of money Cousin Joshua was moved across the tracks and placed in state accommodations for the irresponsible, where he remained for the rest of his days.

I wrote poetry off and on in high school, when I could manage to get out of gym classes and sports - using my allergies as an excuse - and climb the hill behind school till I found a nice place to settle down with a notebook and look at Spokane spread out below.

I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself.

to see passion in every crime, and use that passion to excuse it.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

victimnoun ?vik-t?m 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.

If Sally had been in an accident or come down with some overtly physical disease, I would not hesitate to tell him about it, confident that his sympathies would flow in my direction as a matter of course. But psychosis defies empathy; few people who have not experienced it up close buy the idea of a behavioral disease. It has the ring of an excuse, a license for self-absorption on the most extreme scale. It suggests that one chooses madness and not the other way around. (86)

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.