English proverbs, idioms and expressions related to this theme.
Idle folks lack no excuses.
It suggests that
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
means that
Unwillingness easily finds an excuse.
said to mean that
To bring grist to somebody’s mill.
said when
To flog a dead horse.
As good be an addled egg as an idle bird
applied to
A bad excuse is better than none.
The bleating of the kid excites the tiger.
A tidy house holds a bored woman.
an old stereotype
A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet
suggests that
He who excuses, accuses himself
Marriage is a loottery