Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
Alice Walker

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice Walker

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce

I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.
Lee Trevino

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
Robert E. Lee

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
Elie Wiesel

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Thomas Sowell

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.
Norman Rockwell

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan