#except

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be? ↗

— Charles Edwards

#any #buy #comfortable #except #headline

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

#bath #battle #blood #concerned #election

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#affairs #before #breath #does #draws

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#british #except #office #soldier #stand

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#clear #desire #except #livelihood #man

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so. ↗

— Elizabeth A. Sherman

#always #american #avoid #brutal #dictators

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it. ↗

— Paul Simon

#agree #always #criticism #exception #i

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths. ↗

— Charlie Simpson

#except #fine #i #maths #terrible

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#except #i #much #never #pictures

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful. ↗

— Liz Smith

#evidence #except #those #weddings #wonderful