All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Brendan Behan

There is nothing new in art except talent.
Anton Chekhov

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
Dick Cheney

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
Frank McCourt

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Robert Green Ingersoll

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel Johnson

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.
Gwyneth Paltrow

I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
Don Van Vliet

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
Hermann Hesse

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse

All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Eldridge Cleaver

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.
Meriwether Lewis

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
Giacomo Casanova

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Spiro T. Agnew

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
Evelyn Waugh