(1051 quotes found)
“With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.”
Anthony Storr
“An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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
“With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his”
“What are we out at the park for, except to win?”
Leo Durocher
“Everything comes to those who wait...except a cat.”
Mario Andretti
“Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.”
Charley Reese
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“I'm afraid of nothing except being bored”
Greta Garbo