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Quotations
 | If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain! — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 62 likes |
 | He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 37 likes |
 | In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 16 likes |
 | Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 13 likes |
 | Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 9 likes |
 | We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 8 likes |
 | He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 8 likes |
 | Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 6 likes |
 | The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 6 likes |
 | You know, the Cathars believed that the world was not created by God but by a demon who had stolen a few technological secrets from Him and made this world — which is why it doesn’t work. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 6 likes |
 | It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 6 likes |
 | Never complain and never explain. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 5 likes |
 | Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 5 likes |
 | Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 4 likes |
 | Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 4 likes |
 | They won't let me ... I can't be ... good! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 4 likes |
 | For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
| Art is science made clear. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 4 likes |
 | In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 3 likes |
 | Nothing beautiful can be summarized. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 3 likes |
 | Mystical explanations are considered deep; the truth is, they are not even shallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 3 likes |
 | Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes |
 | It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. — George Washington, 1732-1799, the first American President 3 likes |
| People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.' — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 2 likes |
| Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 2 likes |
 | London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 2 likes |
 | You don't have to explain something you haven't said. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 2 likes |
 | There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. — Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist 2 likes |
 | No truth deserves to remain exemplary. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism 1 likes |
 | If I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is. |
 | Speech is the garment of thought, and the explanation is its armor. |
 | In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. |
 | Several excuses are always less convincing than one. |
 | I do not explain, I explore. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | I do loathe explanations. |
 | The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. |
 | We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying. |
 | Anything seems commonplace, once explained. |
 | To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness. |
Latin Quotes
 | Who, what, where, with what, why, how, when. Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando? — Quintilian, 35-96 AD, Roman rhetorician 46 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 9 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. Ο χρόνος άπαντα τοίσιν ύστερον φράσει. Λάλος γαρ ούτος ουκ ερωτώσιν λέγει. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Aeolus 12 likes |
| Nothing ends unless it passes through the tongue. Πέρας γαρ ουδέν μη διά γλώσσης ιόν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ The Suppliants 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | First of all, I would like to make one thing quite clear... I never explain anything. — from the film Marry Poppins 5 likes |
