Extenuating

Famous quotes containing the word extenuating:

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)