Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.  Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
- Ani Difranco

We first fought in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
- Serj Tankian

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
- G. M. Trevelyan

These thieves defend themselves by saying, ‘I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.’ Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
- Joe Henderson

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
- Benjamin Franklin

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
- Bobby Darin

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
- Aldous Huxley

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
- Benjamin Franklin

Bad excuses are worse than none.
- Thomas Fuller

Every vice has its excuse ready.
- Publilius Syrus

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.
- O. J. Simpson

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people’s excuses.
- Hebbel

Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we.
- Samuel Johnson

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
- Jose Serrano

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
- J. William Fulbright

We are all of 1 accord Strike all our souls the same notechord It is only God whom we’ll call Lord not those of butcher stock or warlords.
- O Anna Niemus

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
- Aristotle

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
- Barack Obama

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
- Confucius

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
- Bertrand Russell

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