(1051 quotes found)
“How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.”
Alfred De Musset
“And nothing hinders their spendings being accepted from them, except that they disbelieve in Allah and in His Apostle and they do not come to prayer but while they are sluggish, and they do not spend but while they are unwilling. (The Immunity 9.54)”
quran
“Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.”
Cesare Lombroso
“Seek assistance through patience and prayer, and most surely it is a hard thing except for the humble ones. (The Cow 2.45)”
“It's naive to think you can change a person--except maybe that boy who works in the library.”
Yeardley Smith
“No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation”
Walter Bagehot
“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”
Jane Addams
“After intercourse every animal is sad, except the rooster and the human female”
Latin Proverb
“Junkies have no interest in sex and they have no interest in other people except as suppliers of junk. They go around looking younger for a few days. Then they need more.”
William S. Burroughs
“Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.”
Lewis H. Lapham
