ANY EXCUSE WILL DO

   Someone has said, "Where the heart is willing, it will find
a thousand ways, but where the heart is weak, it will find a
thousand excuses."
    It's like the man who asked his farming neighbour if he could
borrow his rope.
    "I'm sorry," said the farmer. "I'm using it right now to tie up
my milk."
     "You can't use a rope to tie up milk," laughed the neighbor.
      "I know that," replied the farmer, "but when you don't want
to do something, one excuse is as good as another."

Benjamin Franklin said, "I never knew a man who was good at
making excuses who was good at anything else."

REF:THE SPEAKER'S SOURCEBOOK BY GLENN VAN EKEREN