Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. Ulysses S. Grant
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. Doug Coupland
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer. Katherine Whitehorn
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Alan Watts
And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches. William Cavendish
And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most. Judi Dench
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. Clifford D. Simak