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All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster. — Galen
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. — Gore Vidal
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. — Jeremy Bentham
The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we… — John Ruskin
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. — Al Capone
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of… — Juliana Hatfield
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. — Robert Breault
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive â€” a… — Ayn Rand
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a… — Gary Saul Morson
All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see… — Burgess Meredith
If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them. — Richard E. Grant
The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. — Bernard DeVoto
This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's. — S. J. Perelman
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation. — Thomas a Kempis
The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. — Woodrow Wilson
The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity. — Francois Fenelon
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to… — Samuel Johnson
People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and… — Margaret Thatcher
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not… — George Santayana
No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the… — Elbert Hubbard

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