#except

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#failing #greatest #her #man #sin

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches. ↗

— Hesketh Pearson

#except #rich #riches #stronger #than

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

#darn #does #except #kinds #never

No battle is worth fighting except the last one. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#except #fighting #last #worth

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

#except #had #little #perform #really

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american #american society #except #farm #felt

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

— Evelyn Waugh

#except #fit #man #ready #seen

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#except #half #lost #melancholy #nothing

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#except #harvard #his #mind #poet