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• A poor excuse is better than no excuse!
• He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertake
  for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. -- Alexander Pope...
• That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. -- Alexander Haig
• There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
  William James ['Varieties of Religious Experience', 1902]...
• And oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make a fault the worse by the excuse
  As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patch'd....
• Bad excuse is better than none. -- Nicolas Udal
• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
  -- Russell Bake...
• Ignorance is no excuse.
• Man 1: Excuse me, we wanted to see the geek who valued the happiness of his children more than money.
  Homer: [unenthused] Right here. Man 2: Aw, you said his head was the size of a baseball....