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The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.

Oscar Wilde

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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Aesop

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

But there's no excuse not to start doing it. This is an idea whose time has come.

Dan Geer

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

When you compare it to 30 years ago how easy it is to register [now], you almost have to find an excuse not to register.

Tom Leach

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 for giving preferential policies to foreigners.

Chen Yu

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 comes a point in time when youth can't be used as an excuse for why we can't do something or get a win.

Tom Hall

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

Never excuse, never explain, never complain.

Motto

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

I don't want to put that as an excuse. I didn't run and I've got to accept what I did.

Alex Rios

We're just not very good right now. It's disappointing because the easy thing to say is that Tracy's not here. But we're good enough. There's no excuse.

Jon Barry

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