Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
Gerald R. Ford

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
Sam Kinison

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Democritus

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.
Bob Dole

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
John Updike

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Ovid

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
Steve Allen

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
John Cleese

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Bernard Baruch

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.
William S. Burroughs

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
David Hume

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault

Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
Steven Tyler

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