Best Alibis Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.”

“An alibi is only as good as its details.”

Source: Paladine

“The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.”

People Giving Self Use Opportunity Achieve Self Realization Realization Ease Confrontation Unprecedented Affluent Clamor Untalented Alibis

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.”

Long Hard Wife Months Bottles Hiding Suicidal Whiskey Drunkenness Alibis

Author:James Taylor

“Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Matter Politics Sports Poor Fellows Winner Offering Gang Alibis

Author:Will Rogers

“When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.”

Excuse Apples Plus Counting Alibis

Book:The weak-eyed bat

Source: The weak-eyed bat

“Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.”

Persons Seems Personality Letters Series Framed Alibis

Book:Hortus Vitae: And Limbo

Source: Hortus Vitae: And Limbo

“this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.”

People Life Dream Loss Streets Lifetime Alibis

Book:45 Mercy Street

Source: 45 Mercy Street

“A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.”

Loss Blame Excuse Loser Alibis

Author:Dick Vitale

“The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.”

Men Two Today Used Opportunity Missing He Man Genius Used To Be Alibis

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.”

People Wells Humor Funny Asks Comedy Shots Ask Me Alibis

Author:Emo Philips

“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.”

Knows Ignorance Paper Papers Hilarious Alibis

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”

People War Peace Particular Libertarian Welfare Tyrants Anti War Antiwar Alibis

Book:Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

“IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Might Chance Mistake Building Weakness Profit More Time My Mistakes Analyzing Think Rich Grow Rich Ifs And Alibis

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.”

Player Areas Baseball Alibis

Author:Gabe Paul

“You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel”

Want Feels Doe Eye Deals Mystery Philosophical Selling Compromise Staring His Eyes Realising Vacuums Tramps Never Compromise Alibis

Author:Bob Dylan

“Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.”

Inspirational Explanation Permit Wrestling Alibis

Book:Your Right to Be Rich

Source: Your Right to Be Rich

“No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.”

Inspirational Motivational Responsibility Accepting Ethics Personal Responsibility Accepting Responsibility Alibis

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.”

Want President Firm President Bush Alibis

Author:John F. Kerry

“Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.”

May Used Goal Stones Obstacles Worthy Accepted Climbs Stepping Stones Handicaps Alibis

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice one punishes...in the name of love of one's country or of one's race hates other countries, despises them, massacres them. In the name of equality and brotherhood there is suppression and torture. There is nothing in common between the means and the end, the means go far beyond the end...ideologies and religion... are the alibis of the means.”

Mean Ends Country Hate Names Justice Common Race Ideology Torture Brotherhood Despise Cynical Other Countries Suppression Guise Massacres Alibis

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.”

Home Actors Movie Alibis Walking Home

Author:Jerry Orbach

“Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.”

“You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.”

People Want Trying Mind Honest Being Honest Alibis

Author:Richard Hamming

“A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong”

Writing Guy Sports Experts Being Wrong Alibis

Author:Jimmy Cannon

“A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that”

Hard Honest Judging Blame Clean Quitting Score Wrestling Bias Technological Contests Intervention Athletic Teammate Alibis

Book:Coaching Wrestling Successfully

Source: Coaching Wrestling Successfully

“People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.”

People Knows Believe Reason Common Air Succeed Achievement Traits Alibis

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.”

Humans Pleasure Company Accepting Cat Princess Apologizing Alibis

Book:A Princess of Landover

Source: A Princess of Landover

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