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Bad excuses are worse than none.
THOMAS FULLER, Gnomologia
- Oftentimes excusing of a fault
- Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, King John
I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
ERROL MORRIS, New York Observer, Sep. 29, 2003
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.
JOHN L. MASON, You're Born an Original Don't Die a Copy
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people’s excuses for failure.
ROBERT TOWNSEND, Further Up the Organization
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
ALDOUS HUXLEY, Point Counter Point
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
ERIC HOFFER, Reflections on the Human Condition
Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER, as quoted in Roy B. Zuck's The Speaker's Quote Book
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