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“He who makes excuses, accuses himself”
French Proverb
“Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Love's an excuse to get hurt.”
Conor Oberst
“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”
Jimi Hendrix
“'The President did it' is not an excuse”
Nancy Cartwright
“Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.”
Dorothy Parker
“So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do/ You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue/ Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean/ Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.”
Elton John
“HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him”
Cardinal Richelieu
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
