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There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

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.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

There is no evidence of any kind except that is directed toward Oswald.