Quotes About Excuse

Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.

Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn't mean to. And I didn't kill her, kill her.""Oh, I see. As long as you didn't kill her, kill her, then that's okay.

I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

I like to call in sick to work at places where I've never held a job. Then when the manager tells me I don't work there, I tell them I'd like to. But not today, as I'm sick.

The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse.

The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse. It's a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you.

Excuse me, but could we borrow a pen?" Joyce looked at me like I'd asked for her firstborn child, then took a Bic from behind her ear and handed it over. I looked at the pen, took a napkin and wiped it down. Who knew where her ears had been?

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

What's beyond logic happens beneath will; nor can these moments be translated: i say that even after April by God there is no excuse for May

As a matter of fact I presume I gave little attention to seeking an excuse, for I love a good fight too well to need any other reason for joining in when one is afoot. So

Tyrants seldom want pretexts

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....

It is allowed as a salutary maxim, that the light and frivolous suspicion of a contagious malady, is of sufficient weight to excuse the visits of the most intimate friends; and even the servants, who are despatched to make the decent inquiries, are not suffered to return home, till they have undergone the ceremony of a previous ablution.