“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.”
Don Wilder, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com/2014/01/gamblers-fools-and-egotists-59-still_31.html
“it ain’t over until it’s over and then it ain’t over.”
Yogi Berra, according to Jeffrey Simpson in Globe & Mail August 14, 2001
“Laugh while you can still breathe.”
Another of mine, from March 2, 1989.
“All vulgar errors arise from education. The uneducated are generally right: the badly educated are always wrong.”
G.K. Chesterton in New Witness August 20, 1914, quoted in standalone boxed quotations headed “Education” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021)
“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.”
Aldous Huxley, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 18, 2005
“They should have learned to relax some, starting in training camp. It should be fun.”
Kenny Stabler Snake (specifically about the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints, who were tense because they felt they had to play extra hard not to lose, whereas his Oakland Raiders expected to win).
“Every man who has knocked about the world knows that the real peculiarity of Catholicism is that it may turn up anywhere in the most incongruous social types. We are not surprised if a billiard-marker or a music-hall acrobat is a Catholic, though we might be fairly surprised if he were a Baptist; we are not surprised if a scavenger or a ratcatcher is a Catholic, though we might be if he were a Theosophist.”
G.K. Chesterton in English Life Jan. 1924, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.”
#3 in “Gilbert!’s Top 10 More Bad Puns” in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 6 #7 (June 2003)