Alibi Quotations

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience

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

The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'

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

It blew his alibi out of the water.

Let's not make the referee an alibi to vent our disappointment on. If we had scored in the first leg we could have advanced.

It's a new jury, so I guess we have a new alibi. I would call it a desperate and insulting attempt to create an alibi that had never been there for four years.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.