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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.


Oscar Wilde

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One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
OSCAR WILDE One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
OSCAR WILDE Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.
OSCAR WILDE There's a remedy for everything except death
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Earlier men craved for love from women, nowadays they ask everything except love!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
OSCAR WILDE We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
OSCAR WILDE Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHAL One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHAL (MARIE-HENRI BEYLE) One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
HENRI B. STENDHAL One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
MARIE HENRI BEYLE One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
STENDHAL Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything has been figured out, except how to live
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.
STENDHAL I can resist everything except temptation.
OSCAR WILDE I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
OSCAR WILDE Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.
HERBERT M. SHELTON Money can buy you everything except a father and a mother.
VIKRANT PARSAI In a few minutes nobody will know what I did. Everything will be perfect again. Except for my life.<...
PAM BACHORZ Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde ...
G.K. CHESTERTON I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cann...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
EMILE M. CIORAN I know everything except myself
FRANCOIS VILLON Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Everything was believed except the truth.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
OSCAR WILDE Women have a wonderful instinct about things.  They can discover everything except the obvious.
OSCAR WILDE Oregon has EVERYTHING- except a decent speed limit.
CHARLEEN L. SCOTT Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Everything has its antonyms except time and consciousness.
EPHDAN Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.
STEPHANIE M. SELLERS Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
RUDYARD KIPLING Everything is relative except for the absolute.
DIETER GERUSCHKAT Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.
MARIO ANDRETTI Everything comes to those who wait...except a cat.
MARIO ANDRETTI I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
GARY COLE Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Everything looked good except for the shooting, and that was the difference. If we can get a little ...
TIM ABNEY The mind can understand everything except itself. How do I know I understand then?
EPHDAN Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.
KIN HUBBARD Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges
JUDY COLLINS He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.
J.K. ROWLING Time will age everything except your best memories.
WOHI PURANA I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.
CHARLIE SIMPSON Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have...
OSCAR WILDE Time – an illusion preventing us from falling from the tight rope of life except for sleep, an ecs...
MARIANA FULGER Everything happens for a reason... except you. You were an accident.
THOMAS STOKES Everything in this world is a fake except the word,"FAKE".......
PRABHA Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
DEMOCRITUS Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion
DEMOCRITUS The internet, where everything is free except porn sites.
LARRY MONIZ I do everything myself except coloring for the covers.
STAN SAKAI What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,wha...
LEO TOLSTOY Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generall...
Everything else you can live around, but not death. Death you have to live through.
KAMILA SHAMSIE I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREEN He's prepared. He's done about everything you can do except sit in the (general manager's) chair. I'...
TERRY RYAN My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
OSCAR WILDE [For him, that role illustrated some of the quirks of live theater.] They liked my hair, ... then th...
EDWARD HYDE Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
OSCAR WILDE In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.
CRISS JAMI Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Last year, everything went great in all aspects except attendance.
AL BRICKER True friends share everything, except the past before they met.
MARY RENAULT Everything in life has limits... Except God's love for you...
KLEINJAN REDELINGHUYS In Los Angeles, everything is 100% organic, except the people.
KRIS KIDD In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow fol...
BHIKKHU BODHI Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your r...
SAUL ALINSKY No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think h...
ZANE GREY I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answ...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answ...
JAVAN We've done everything at this program except win a national championship. This would be a pretty goo...
ERIC HALL Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to ch...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL For the rivers, everything should be coming down tonight and tomorrow. It looks like a fairly dry we...
JOHN CANNON Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.
CRISS JAMI Every soul is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
G. WILHELM LEIBNIZ Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.'
CRISS JAMI A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself
ELBERT HUBBARD A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
ELBERT HUBBARD And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOT Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
LARS VON TRIER Everything in life takes longer than we think - except life itself.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.
LEN WOLMAN Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about yo...
SAUL ALINSKY You're nervous. You block everything out except maybe for your father and your coach. There's no one...
LUKE LANNO I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, "In this life one should try everything once except inces...
STEPHEN FRY Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.
DEAN CAIN In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped
OSCAR WILDE Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.
DAN O'BRIEN Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good ...
WEDDING TOAST Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good t...
ANONYMOUS TOAST

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