Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
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Bad excuses are worse than none.
-- Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
1941-, American Author, Publicist
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
-- Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse
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He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
-- Gabriel Meurier
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No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
-- A. A. Milne
1882-1956, British Born American Writer
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