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

We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

If time is money it seems moral to save time above all one's own and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Love feels no burden thinks nothing of trouble attempts what is above its strength pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself and all things possible.

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

Maybe you don't like your job maybe you didn't get enough sleep well nobody likes their job nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life but you know there's no escape there's no excuse so just suck up and be nice.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Under the leadership of this President the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility not making excuses.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Ignorance is no excuse it's the real thing.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

It's a great excuse and luxury having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes bigger government and less trade with other nations.

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

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

God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making primarily at the federal level and the big issues of the day are not being addressed leaving our future in jeopardy.

It does kids no favors and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse for any reason whenever it's possible.

Faith is the great cop-out the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of even perhaps because of the lack of evidence.

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