#except

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ↗

— Sophocles

#bred #children #except #furnishes #gives

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#chess #even #exception #fischer #only

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#anyone #dies #except #happy #i

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. ↗

— James Jeans

#because #carbon #certain #exceptional #exists

Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer. ↗

— Pauly Shore

#everyone #except #guy #i #i love

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. ↗

— David Simon

#americas #being #beings #cultural #day

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ↗

— Socrates

#fact #i #ignorance #know #nothing

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him. ↗

— Nathaniel Branden

#anything #desire #except #give #him

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#children #different #each #effect #even

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#draw #ended #everything #except #glamorous