The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.
Oscar Wilde
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.
Colin Powell
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Jimi Hendrix
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard
At this point of the season, where they is so much at stake, there is no excuse.
Bhawoh Jue
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Edgar Bergen
Excuse me while I disappear.
John Chaney
A poor excuse of a priest, I'll tell you that.
Brian Schiavo
There's no excuse for not taking care of it.
Harold Gardner
For me to blame my season on injury, to me that's just an excuse. I still had 350 at-bats that I didn't do much with.
Corey Koskie
No excuse was offered by the captain.
Chris Broad
We were too passive and not aggressive enough. We have a big game against Milan coming up but that is no excuse.
Felix Magath
Excuse me if I get a little choked up.
Andrew Lloyd
Was driven by pure hatred. There is no excuse for what he did.
James Brooks
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Irene Peter
There's no excuse. I would like to have an opportunity to play them again.
John Ontjes
No excuse to break the law and show such flagrant contempt for the courts of British Columbia.
Gordon Campbell
A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse.
Stephen Dooley, Jr.
There's no excuse for us to only score 14 points. I don't care who we're playing or where we're playing.
Robbie Tobeck
They don't know how to market it -- that's the excuse so far.
Michael Fitzgerald
You have to excuse me - I have something in my eye.
George Canyon
Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.
Judith S. Marin
There is no excuse for what I did.
Webb Hubbell
There's no excuse for Miguel or myself not to get that run in. It probably cost us the game.
Josh Willingham
We don't want to give the authorities any excuse for violence.
Isa Gambar
There is no excuse for it; it has to stop.
Ian Paisley
It's an excuse for us to listen to music together.
Tim Carroll
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We had a chance to win, but there's no excuse. We just fell apart in the end.
Dajuan Harris
He's got to have some sort of excuse not to play. I mean, serious excuse.
Retief Goosen
Even a good person can do something wrong. He offers no excuse for his criminal conduct.
Benjamin Brafman
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Marie Henri Beyle
I don't know what their excuse is except to be there to create a nuisance.
Graham Dixon
It's a challenging task but that shouldn't be an excuse for China not starting on it right now.
Qu Hongbin
It was a great excuse to go to Australia.
Gene Strusz
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
He doesn't want ... people who want to destabilize to use that as an excuse.
Jean bertrand Aristide
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen
Excuse the expression, but I didn't get a virgin there. It's got me before.
Charles Coody
It's just a tradition; it's probably just an excuse for the man to have a drink.
John Donaldson
We got caught in the rain when they got their runs. But that's no excuse for our defensive play.
Holly Brown
That was our worst defensive performance all year. There's no excuse for it. You have to make the plays.
Karen Baird
It's an excuse for a fiesta.
Mariano Martinez
Excuse my language, but I'm talking some (trash).
Bruce Davis
There's just no excuse for getting that wrong.
David Errington
It really looks like there should be no excuse for not having a medal.
Dave Martin
There will always be those that take advantage of Americans' generosity. But potential contributors should not use those concerns as an excuse not to give.
Bennett Weiner
I see no excuse at all for people not voting.
Sharon Harrington
Well, everyone had to ski the same course, so there's really no excuse. Accidents happen.
Gro Kvinlog
I am very sorry, ... I'm without excuse; I have no defense for what I did. I feel terrible.
Bruce Davis
Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me.
Sun Microsystems
There is no way I am going back there. I was looking for an excuse to get out and that was it.
Richard Rogers
I use that as an excuse sometimes when people laugh at me. I say I'm a lefty, leave me alone.
Matt Schrantz
I don't have an explanation or excuse for it. They played better than we did and we weren't very good. That makes it 8-2.
Cory Sarich
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I have no excuse.
Myron Cope
We're young, but that's no excuse. In a game against this type of ball club, you can't make mistakes.
Larry Beets
Its profit missing estimates is just an excuse to take profit.
Barro Liao
There is a choice. There is no excuse for giving up on Britain. We are surrendering to the European Union our ability to run our own affairs.
William Hague
She did not say the president's childhood in any way caused his behavior, nor does she believe that. I think that she was basically stating some feelings about his childhood, but that they do not excuse his behavior.
Marsha Berry
I'm not going to use that as an excuse. We didn't have it tonight.
Bob Leckie
I am sorry for my actions. I have no excuse. I just hope to get the chance to clean up my life.
Richard Davis
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Thomas S. Szasz
I just missed 'em -- there's really no excuse for it.
John Vaughn
It's a good excuse for a bike ride.
David Houston
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
Henri Rousseau
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
William Camden
Our pains are no excuse for slandering the world.
Anatole France
When you need an excuse any excuse will do.
Robert Vasquez
There's no excuse. Some guys seemed flat and some guys had it.
Brian Savage
Any excuse to sell, when sentiment is running this hot against it.
Brendan O'donovan
We played a lot of defense in the first half. But that's not an excuse. You have to give Crestline credit.
Jake Bruner
Now it's an excuse so that people can be late. I think it's become a crutch.
Jonathan Epstein
It's significant to me that this little whisper of an action could shake and rattle the country, ... We would have no excuse not to come.
Brian Higgins
Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller
Bush isn't even here, ... He's got a good excuse not to be here.
Susan Johnson
Using that as an excuse is not true.
Samantha Heller
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
If that's your only excuse -- that your CFO was running rampant -- then that's negligence.
David Holland
There's just no excuse for them to be demanding concessions from these workers at a time when the economy in B.C. is booming and their excuse about competition just doesn't hold up.
Andy Neufeld
Guess there's no excuse for anyone to ever get lost out on the water again.
Aaron Brooks
Anything related to this, we kind of got an excuse for it.
Chantel Leonhart
We have a tough schedule. But, that's no excuse.
Lynette Flack
I've kicked hundreds of balls in the rain before, there's no excuse for it.
Nate Kaeding
I think that's probably the case. But that's an excuse, and I don't mean it to be.
Bill Snyder
There's no excuse for it. It's our home gym. We practice here every day, so there's no excuse for it.
Jeff Arntson
There should be no space or excuse for continued criminal behavior of any kind.
Mark Durkan
[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.
Kate Seredy
Tradition can be an excuse for staying the same, or for changing.
Mary Joan Leith
But I don't want to use anything as an excuse.
Shawn Harris
It was just an excuse. I guess it has something to do with the legislative session beginning.
Gao Zhisheng
DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
Excuse me for a moment. I've got some studying to do.
Chris Campbell
I don't think you should be able to use that as an excuse. I think every team has to go through that so it shouldn't be an issue.
Adam Sullivan
Teddy really wasn't Teddy but that's no excuse. We didn't make some plays behind him that we needed to.
Cory Miller
What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
Gerald Barzan
I would be concerned that a hastily done study would not come up with any definitive results and then would be used as an excuse to draw the conclusion that there is no effect.
Jonathan Ward
We know what works. Why aren't more of them doing it? What's their excuse? That's what I want to know.
Kevin Jennings
It was a big Mardi Gras party — excuse me, a Muddy Gras party.
Oscar Still
All of corporate America is going to use Katrina as an excuse for all of their problems.
Cummins Catherwood
He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
Charles Ii
If you understand the law — excuse me, ma'am! Now I have the floor now! I just got accused of this.
Mayor Mary Manross
She did a good job. She never complained, and she never used (having a child) as an excuse. Some (players) do.
Chris Ratcliff
The walks drive me crazy. There's no excuse for that.
Rick Helling
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Pope John Paul Ii
We were missing a couple of key personnel tonight, but that's no excuse. We'll come back out hard again (tomorrow).
Glenn Patrick
They're a lot bigger but that's no excuse. We have to do a better job of fundamentals, boxing out.
Jason Cassarino
How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.
Bill Copeland
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow
I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison
China has always believed that the United States' excuse for developing NMD and TMD does not hold water.
Zhu Bangzhao
It's ridiculous. There's no excuse for it.
Ethan Moreau
It is just celebrating someone's death and I don't know how that came across as an excuse to drink, really.
Emma Fletcher
And excuse me for not being able to deal with your problems, but I was busy saving someone's life ...
Earle Caldwell
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