A well-placed excuse can avoid a completely wasted hour.
Calendars protect us — they make excellent excuses.
A married man with no excuse is like a soldier with no body armor.
A good excuse can make a superb ruse.
The third excuse is self-abuse.
It is a kind of self-preservation to excuse our own mistakes; it is espionage and treason to condemn others for theirs.
Accusing our kin doesn’t excuse our own sin.
We are energized by other’s errors — and our own excuses.
We confess to the lesser to excuse the greater.
We play only deuces by means of excuses.
A poor excuse makes a perfect noose.
Abuse has no excuse.
Modern Thought Proverbs, Aphorisms and Epigrams 