There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. Gilbert K. Chesterton
We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them. Meriwether Lewis
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. Michel Foucault
We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world. Dirk Benedict
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. Thornton Wilder
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. Roman Jakobson
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. Donella Meadows
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself. Giacomo Casanova
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. River Phoenix
