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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
Mikhail Bakunin

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
C. S. Forester

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
Bo Bennett

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Pope John Paul II

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.
Murray Walker

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Milton Friedman


Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
Tommy Chong

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Aesop

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred Jarry

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
Edmund White

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.
Deryck Whibley

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for halloween everyday.
Gwen Stefani

Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
William Camden

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller

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