Top 100 Except Quotes
#1. The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.
Henry Fielding
#2. According to her, all her kids have done quite well except me,
Markus Zusak
#3. How much happier is the man who owes nothing to anybody except the one he can most easily refuse, himself!
Seneca.
#4. Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
George Horace Lorimer
#6. He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy."
"Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You've never seen so many of the faithful who're armed.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#7. Stand-up comedy is a sickness. Who wouldn't want a room full of people laughing and screaming at you just because of who you are? Nothing is as good, except maybe having a baby.
Howie Mandel
#8. As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.
Charles Bukowski
#9. I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
Karl Lagerfeld
#10. For nothing matters except life; and, of course, order.
Virginia Woolf
#11. You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.
Noam Chomsky
#12. Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
#13. The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.
Howard Nemerov
#14. One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal
#15. At my school, they have an ice cream special sometimes, and they have this ice cream sandwich, except the sandwich part is like an Oreo and the inside like cookies n' cream ice cream. I love that.
Lilla Crawford
#16. I lived six months with her. Since that day - God be my witness! - 1 need fear nothing.
Nothing, I say. Nothing, except one thing: that the devil, or God, wipe out those six
months from my memory.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#17. I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
George Canning
#18. I've always found animals easy to love because their love is unconditional. They are trusting, loyal and undemanding except in wanting love in return.
Marlon Brando
#19. Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.
Thomas J. Stanley
#20. The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.
Albert Einstein
#21. Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.
Pope Gregory XVI
#22. Sometimes I wish I was in the movies ... Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody'd know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I'd just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.
Alan Heathcock
#23. Except you.
The revelation was so blindingly sudden the words almost slipped out, and she had to bit her tongue and look away. pg 391, A Matter of Magic
Patricia C. Wrede
#24. It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.
Sarah Miller
#25. All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?
Eliphas Levi
#26. Here, everyone knows my story and has decided I'm trash."
"Except me," she said.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#27. Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.
Martha Stout
#28. Uh ... you know, strict." "With occasional lapses into lacto and ovo, huh?" "Yes. Except on weekends and nights when I'm stoned. Then I'm a steako-lacto-ovo ... or maybe a porkchopo-lacto-ovo ...
Armistead Maupin
#29. Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.
Gillian Jacobs
#30. What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can't find a replacement because it's too expensive.
Rush Limbaugh
#31. You will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.
Gore Vidal
#32. There is no such thing as a fixed and reliable truth (except for the statement that this is so, presumably
Peter Barry
#33. I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.
Fred Saberhagen
#34. The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
Eddie Van Halen
#35. Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.
W.C. Fields
#36. The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' based the book of the same name, has a line that enlightens and comforts me. The protagonist, who has lost all ability to move except one eye, discusses his role as a father. He notes, 'Even a fraction of a father is still a father.'
Steve Gleason
#37. Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
George Bernard Shaw
#38. In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
Abraham Lincoln
#39. When I started at the 'Guardian,' though, I couldn't think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as 'Guardian' writers queued up to drool over Eminem.
Julie Burchill
#40. I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Julia Ward Howe
#41. I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.
Jerry West
#42. I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
Eddie Vedder
#43. Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
David J. Chalmers
#44. No other tissue in the body relies solely on glucose for energy except the testes. (This is why men occasionally experience a battle for resources between their brains and their glands.)
Daniel J. Levitin
#45. I was incapable of writing or feeling anything except the terror of her absence, of knowing she was lost, wrenched away.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#46. One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
A.J.P. Taylor
#47. Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.
Timothy Garton Ash
#48. Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.
Alison Espach
#49. I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
E.L. Konigsburg
#50. Waiting with too few men, and with every instinct telling me to run. Every instinct, except for that one to hold or break, but never bend. I
Mark Lawrence
#51. There is cheese from just about every country in the world except China. No cheese from China? Maybe tofu is Chinese cheese. No wonder there was a cultural revolution.
Jim Gaffigan
#52. I don't want to be with anyone except you. I didn't want her, I only want you. I only want you, Bree.
Mia Sheridan
#54. What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can't think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids - now we've got a problem.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#55. There is no communication in this world except between equals.
Ken Burns
#56. When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
Gail Porter
#57. I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?
Peter S. Beagle
#58. The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.
Dorothea Dix
#59. But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#60. There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.
J.A. Redmerski
#61. We carried bottled water and day packs and cameras, except for Fred, who said he didn't believe in taking photographs; he planned to store his memories in his head, an idea I found incomprehensibly radical. My impulse to record was almost on par with my impulse to travel
Elisabeth Eaves
#62. As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places
Bart Giamatti
#63. Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don't wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that.
Zoe Winters
#64. The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
Tom Robbins
#65. His only mistake was not realizing there was a second car. There's always a second car. Except when there's not.
Brian Evenson
#66. An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind.
A.T. Baron
#67. Time passes and everything gets bigger except us.
Stephen King
#68. There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.
Jack London
#69. And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?
Benjamin Disraeli
#70. I didn't feel like doing much of anything except for staring out my sister's big open window and wishing there were someplace out there for me to land.
Alison Umminger
#71. You become free like you always dreamed, yet you realise that every land is different and you do not belong anywhere yet you live everywhere and that we all share the same lands except you seem to be the only one who realises this fact
Yolanda De Iuliis
#72. Look at the most religious areas of the world at present - the Middle East and the United States. These are sick societies, and they're going to get sicker. People are never more dangerous than when they have nothing left to believe in except God.
J.G. Ballard
#73. You cannot control anything except your thoughts. With yoga, you do not control yourself but you harmonize with nature.
Debasish Mridha
#74. The yoke is naturally and necessarily humiliating to all persons, except the one who is on the throne, together with, at most, the one who expects to succeed to it.
John Stuart Mill
#75. No nation gains the power of judgment except it can pass judgment on itself. But to attain this great privilege takes a very long time.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#76. Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
Shirley Maclaine
#78. You are not in competition with anybody except yourself;plan to outdo your past not other people.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#79. Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.
Larry Dixon
#80. When my Beloved appears,
With what eye do I see Him?
With His eye, not with mine,
For none sees Him except Himself.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#81. I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed out. To do this all the drapery must be removed.
Thomas Eakins
#82. Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
Aldous Huxley
#83. There is really no crisis except an artificial one ... If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
Abraham Lincoln
#84. No one marries for love, except in stories. People marry for property and position, and one day so will you.
Judith James
#85. Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.
Nick Hornby
#86. Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my own life. I was busy.
Mitch Albom
#87. Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.
Howard Finster
#88. I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.
David Clement-Davies
#89. There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment.
Patricia Highsmith
#90. Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf
#91. Except for a few who actually killed people, hardly any "revolutionaries" have been punished for what they did during the Cultural Revolution. Those
Ji-li Jiang
#92. That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#93. It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.
D.W. Winnicott
#94. Monstrous, unnatural, colossal, was the thing - too far beyond all the ideas of man to be believed except in the silent damnable small hours of the morning when one cannot sleep.
H.P. Lovecraft
#95. My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was scared that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.
Stephen King
#97. I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.
Dave Grohl
#98. They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.
Mark Helprin
#99. only joy in the doing of it, except for the one thing. The one consideration strong enough to outweigh Jamie's pride, loom larger than his sense of manhood, than his threatened soul's peace. Frank. That was the single idea that had driven me through this day, sustained me well past the
Diana Gabaldon
#100. Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
Avicenna
