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Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
Written by Martin Mull
All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
Written by Mark Crispin Miller
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Written by Mark Twain
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Written by Bernard Baruch
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Written by Salvador Dali
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Written by Alice Walker
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
Written by Rudyard Kipling
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Written by Stendhal
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Written by Jerome K. Jerome
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
Written by Dave Barry
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
Written by Dave Barry
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Written by Franklin P. Jones
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
Written by David Ogilvy
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Written by Brendan Behan
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Written by Mahatma Gandhi
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Written by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
Written by James Patrick Murray
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Written by Francis Bacon
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Written by Elbert Hubbard
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Written by Andre Gide
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Written by Cullen Hightower
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Written by William Ralph Inge
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Written by Albert Camus
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Written by Martin H. Fischer
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Written by Mahatma Gandhi
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Written by John Holmes
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Written by Anatole France
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Written by Jane Addams
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
Written by Woody Allen

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