“Everything can be inherited except sterility.”
Matt Ridley (1958) economist
Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 1. Human Nature
“Everything can be inherited except sterility.”
Matt Ridley (1958) economist
Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 1. Human Nature
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variant: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“One can acquire everything in solitude — except character.”
Stendhal (1783–1842) French writer
On peut tout acquérir dans la solitude, hormis du caractère.
Fragments
De L'Amour (On Love) (1822)
“One can survive everything nowadays except death.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
" Oscariana http://books.google.com/books?id=2otbAAAAMAAJ&q="One+can+survive+everything+nowadays+except+death"&pg=PA65#v=onepage" (1907)
Stanley Holloway (1890–1982) English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist
Sam, Sam, Pick Oop Tha' Musket
“When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.”
Twyla Tharp (1941) American choreographer
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life