Excepting Quotes

48 quotes by 45 authors

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon… — Jane Addams
I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that… — Jacques Derrida
After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation… — Victor Hugo
Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia… — John Cheever
Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change. — Swami Vivekananda
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence,… — Lord Byron
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress? — Samuel Johnson
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those… — John Muir
Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual. — H. L. Mencken
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it… — Neil Gaiman
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of… — Democritus
The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself. — Juliet Marillier
I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one… — Charles Dickens
Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own,… — Florence Nightingale
I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude. — Brigham Young
Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's… — Kurt Cobain
...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there… — Charles Darwin
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. — Saadi

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