Except Quotes

AKA: QuotesNSayings.net

Famous Quotes and Sayings

• Authors
• Picture Quotes
• Proverbs
• Professions
• Nationalities
• About
• Contact

Popular Authors

• Stephen Hawking
• Narendra Modi
• Malcolm X
• George W. Bush
• Hu Jintao
• Gautama Buddha
• Abraham Lincoln
• Coco Chanel
• Helen Keller
• Albert Einstein

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 24th May

Births

• 1870 - Benjamin N. Cardozo
• 1855 - Arthur Wing Pinero
• 1965 - John Christopher Reilly Jr.
• 1966 - Eric Cantona
• 1944 - Patti LaBelle

Deaths

• 1995 - Harold Wilson
• 1879 - William Lloyd Garrison
• 1974 - Duke Ellington
• 1969 - John Foster Dulles
• 1543 - Nicolaus Copernicus

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Except, Forgives, Tolerant, Wonderfully, Everything, Public, Humour

• Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you’re against Obama, against Obamacare, all the rest, it’s all fine, well and good, except it doesn’t move you forward.

  Ed Rollins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Move, Except

• The French don’t seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

  Eric Rohmer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except, French

• Two kinds of ballplayers aren’t worth a darn: One that never does what he’s told, and one who does nothin’ except what he’s told.

  Bum Phillips

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worth, Except

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except

• I’m a normal teen-ager except for my size.

  Dana Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except

• I don’t know how to construct a career that’ll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I’ll be competing with billions of actors who haven’t got false teeth, and who are 25.

  Ian Hart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except, Famous, Competing, Career

• I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

  Brian Celio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except

• I didn’t expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience.

  Dannii Minogue

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Except

• No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except, Great, Happy

• My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

  Fred Allen

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Dad, Except

• I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

  Franz Peter Schubert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Inspired, Except

• Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

   

  Billy Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Every, Except

• An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

  Franklin P. Jones

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Except, Nothing
• 

  I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except, Heart

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Community, Enough, Except
• 

  Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Seriously, Except

• I did what most writers do when something happens that’s overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn’t know what else to do about it except write about it.

  Patti Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except, Writers And Writing

• They call it The New Avengers but it’s really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

  Patrick Macnee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except

• I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

  Francois Gautier

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Intention, Except