All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Walter Bagehot

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
Johnny Cash

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.
Kinky Friedman

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
Sophia Loren

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Raymond Chandler

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.
Sarah Palin

I didn't aim at anything except good music.
Waylon Jennings

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
Al Gore

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Simone Weil

Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.
Pauly Shore

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
Karl Barth

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
Diogenes

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan