Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob Dylan

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Oscar Wilde

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.
Mike Ditka

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift