Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
You can always find an excuse that your side will accept, and who cares what the enemy thinks? In the real world, it wouldn’t make any difference.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.
I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don’t we?
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.