(verb) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
"There is nothing to fear except fear it's self."
"Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!"
"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
"All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire."
"The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind."
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
"Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason."
"We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it."
"But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people."
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."