#excuse

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#live #may #only #peace #war

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#else #excuses #good #making #seldom

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

#been #done #excuses #failures #greatest

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#hear #make #men #need #their

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. ↗

— James Laughlin

#american #deal #excuse #going #good

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#allowed #another #book #character #crazy

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anyone #buy #chicken #come #dad

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#accepts #difficulty #excuse #never

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#excuses #hard #hard work #i #i believe

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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