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

He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.