Arab Proverb Quotes

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

An excuse is the handy explanation we offer when we disappoint other people.

Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble ... deny your responsibility.

If I've done anything wrong, I believe it's his fault.

We have 40 million reasons for our failure but not one excuse.