Except Quotes

What are we out at the park for, except to win?

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

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

And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

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.

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

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

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

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

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

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

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

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.