#except

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. ↗

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#because #exception #for the people #free #friends

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#black #except #extremity #flight #geese

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#america #because #came #clothes #community

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#bigger #burning #climate #coal #droughts

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation. ↗

— James A. Michener

#concern #crucial #does #else #except

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft. ↗

— Billy Mitchell

#attack #except #nothing #other #stop

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#except #i #i do #mind #minds

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#category #except #i #i see #no reason

I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework. ↗