#except

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told. ↗

— Bum Phillips

#darn #does #except #kinds #never

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#anyhow #been #close #cold #columns

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. ↗

— Philip Roth

#aged #dying #everything #exactly #except

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty. ↗

— Keri Russell

#being #being pretty #except #going #pretty

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#back #dugout #except #get #good

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

Being pregnant was the healthiest I've ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#being #being pregnant #ever #except #healthiest

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

#except #had #little #perform #really

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american #american society #except #farm #felt

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#like #little #manure #money #spread