#except

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#any #books #censorship #completeness #ends

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married. ↗

— Richard Ford

#done #ever #except #i #married

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ↗

— Sophocles

#bred #children #except #furnishes #gives

It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#adult #anything #authors #because #before

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#anything #except #going #know #like

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. ↗

— Charles Sumner

#fame #founded #happiness #labors #mankind

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish. ↗

— Graham Taylor

#bowl #course #except #few #goldfish

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#country #except #great #great country #grow

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#battle #church #creek #disbanded #exception

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#confusion #except #had #i #my own