Quotes About Excepting

#1. We really seldom do anybody much good excepting as we share the deepest experiences of our souls... We need to struggle for more richness of soul." ("Letters By a Modern Mystic," January 26, 1930)

Frank C. Laubach

#2. I have always maintained that excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work. - Charles Darwin

Daniel Coyle

#3. English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#4. Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult).

John Scalzi

#5. Cages everywhere I went. I was no better off in Saxonia, excepting only for the threat of vigorous, royal incest. Perhaps this also means that a princess is only a particularly desirable kind of monstrous creature--a lure that must be kept in a box at all times.

J.M. McDermott

#6. Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#7. Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. Real happiness comes from loving you're inner self and excepting the things you can't change. Flaws perfectly imperfect.

Shellie Palmer

#9. You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

#10. I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned ... than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

Philippe Pinel

#11. It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.

Jeremy Collier

#12. Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

Juliet Marillier

#13. No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

Isaac Newton

#14. I've got to get out of this place," he said as he eased back. "That's God's shining truth. I can only breathe in cop for so long without choking."
"Hey."
He tapped his finger on her chin. "Excepting one.

J.D. Robb

#15. She did not hate Miss Garnder anymore. She didn't like her, but she felt sorry for her. Miss Garnder had nothing in all the world excepting a sureness about how right she was.

Betty Smith

#16. He blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. 'Shit!' he roared at nothing.

Joe Abercrombie

#17. There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them;
Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

Will Carleton

#18. Excepting Will," Mrs. Bulloch amended. "Such an affront to put upon ye, Thomas! Yon man'll not enjoy heaven if he gets there." "He'll

D.E. Stevenson

#19. Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

Swami Vivekananda

#20. Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#21. Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Democritus

#22. The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#23. There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. When they want a working man for anything excepting work they want him for conspiracy.

Clarence Darrow

#25. There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

Samuel Johnson

#26. The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#27. I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately

Jacques Derrida

#28. You meet a new guy, analyze him, not good for marriage, not good for a relationship, not good for fucking, maybe excepting the very drunk mood, so, conclusion: this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Irina Bors

#29. Afflictions cannot sanctify, excepting as they are used by Him to this end. Our prayers and efforts cannot make us ready for heaven, apart from the hand of Jesus, who fashioneth our hearts aright.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#30. An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

Saadi

#31. Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

Kurt Cobain

#32. Universe to each must be
All that is, including me.
Environment in turn must be
All that is, excepting me.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#33. We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

Max DePree

#34. All ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

Edith Sitwell

#35. I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

Jane Addams

#36. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#38. Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?

Samuel Johnson

#39. Revenge was violence and therefore forbidden by the Teacher - excepting violence against unbelievers, of course, which this probably would be.

Dave Duncan

#40. In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#41. I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

Mary MacLane

#42. Motto: true to myself, false to others (excepting one person).

Paul Ree

#43. A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Arnold Bax

#44. For every species on land, excepting only the weasel, there is a corresponding species in the water,

Louis Ginzberg

#45. This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Neil Gaiman

#46. I hate relativism . I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats ... surely, surely , no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.

Jerry Fodor

#47. Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

John Cheever

#48. No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.

Marquis De Lafayette

#49. An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Thomas Campbell

#50. Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

H.L. Mencken

#51. I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

Brigham Young

#52. I have learned more from Hayek than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski - but not even excepting Russell.

Karl Popper

#53. I am an estranged man, said the liar: estranged from myself, from my family, my fellow man, my country, my world, my time, and my culture. I am not estranged from God, although I am a disbeliever in everything about God excepting God indefinable, inside all and careless of all.

William, Saroyan

#54. The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.

William, Saroyan

#55. She is the most charming person in the world. That's all. I refuse to amplify. Excepting- she's perfect.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#56. Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are.

Sarah Van Waterschoot