A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
“Everything comes to those who wait...except a cat.”
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion
I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.
There is joy in work. there is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
There are people in the world so hungry, that god cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.