#except

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#drink #except #experience #life #most

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#all things #alphabet #already #books #covered

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#except #hasn #i #life #love

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#carry #color #deeply #every #everything

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? ↗

— Doug Coupland

#exists #god #like #much #out

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#agreement #anything #clinton #compromise #decided

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#competitive #ever #except #genuine #i

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗

— John Gardner

#devil #editors #exception #fight #incompetent

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#college #conservative #except #government #handful

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#continually #depression #except #happy #i