I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.
Richard Pryor

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette

Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.
Mario Andretti

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Aeschylus

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
Aeschylus

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Elbert Hubbard

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas Carlyle

There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
Black Elk

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
Thomas Hardy

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
Haile Gebrselassie

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
Joe DiMaggio

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
Taylor Caldwell