Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.[Homer Simpson] Quote:No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere 'opiate of the people' have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.[Mark Twain] Quote:If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.[Colin Powell] Quote:Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Money buys you everything except the chance to do it again.[Matthew J. Clayfield] Quote:The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'[GK Chesterton] Quote:We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.[Adam Smith] Quote:If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.[Groucho Marx] Quote:It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.[Douglas Adams] Quote:We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.[John Updike] Quote:Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.[Rudyard Kipling] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. [Carl Sandburg] Quote:Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. [Mark Twain] Quote:It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. [Jerome K. Jerome] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. [Robert Anton Wilson] Quote:We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [Anatole France] Quote:Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know. [Garry Shandling] Quote:Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. [Arthur Rubinstein] Quote:Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. [Donald Trump] Quote:Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. [JJ Furnas] Quote:I can resist everything except temptation. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. [Virginia Woolf] Definitions of: exceptDefinition: To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.Definition: To object to; to protest against. Definition: With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting. |
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