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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love. -- Aristotle
True nobility is exempt from fear. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt? -- Gloria Vanderbilt
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. -- Richard Whately
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. -- Aristotle
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. -- William Shakespeare
Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others. -- Rush Limbaugh
I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world. -- Pierre de Fermat
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. -- Joseph Addison
I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices. -- LeAnn Rimes
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. -- James G. Frazer
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt. -- Moliere
We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income. -- Ben Stein
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. -- William Shakespeare
These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws. -- Steve Finley
When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions. -- Mark McKinnon
Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt. -- Chris Farley
I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions. -- Cornel West
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. -- J. Philippe Rushton
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on? -- Parker Palmer
Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified. -- John Sununu
I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered. -- Nayvadius Cash
I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen. -- Jose Rizal
I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives. -- David Cameron
The Safe Drinking Water Act, the safety provisions of the Clean Water Acts, the Clean Air Act, the Superfund Law - the gas industry is exempt from all these basic environmental and worker protections. They don't have to disclose the chemicals they use. They don't have to play by the same rules as anybody else. -- Josh Fox
Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score. -- Suze Orman
No one is exempt from grief -- Gregory Maguire
No one is exempt from grief. -- Gregory Maguire
Think of the ills from which you are exempt. -- Joseph Joubert
Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism. -- James Luther Adams
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion. -- Samuel Johnson
No one is exempt from the call to find common ground. -- Barack Obama
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty. -- George Bernard Shaw
The godly are not exempt from trouble but are preserved in it. -- Johnny Hunt
It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers. -- Sophocles
I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world -- Pierre de Fermat
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution -- Steven Pinker
All Americans should be exempt from the atrocities of Obamacare - no exception. -- Austin Scott
Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously. -- Michel de Montaigne
No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error. -- Alexander Lowen
Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt? -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. -- Michel de Montaigne
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Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis. -- James A. Michener
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. -- Joseph Addison
Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World. -- Richard B. Garnett
The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been. -- Cassius Jackson Keyser
We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others. -- Michael Eric Dyson
None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice. -- Pope Francis
Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it. -- John Lewis Gaddis
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject. -- Walter Raleigh
No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse. -- Giorgio Napolitano
The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection. -- Kay Ryan
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. -- Honore de Balzac
Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that. -- Tony Gilroy
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction. -- Saadi
The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it. -- Garry Wills
Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread. -- Thomas F. Wilson
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us. -- Alexander Pope
If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction. -- Ice Cube
The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it. -- Louis D. Brandeis
The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by. -- George Stephanopoulos
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. -- John Maynard Keynes
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine. -- Plutarch
The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax. -- Matt Shea
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful. -- Bayard Taylor
We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause. -- Grover Norquist
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. -- Herman Melville
Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude. -- Adrienne Rich
Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer. -- Richard Cecil
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian. -- Aaron Klein
Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to. -- Will Rogers
Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion. -- Scott Adams
A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim. -- Edward Gibbon
Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt. -- Kim Gandy
What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation. -- Paul Weyrich
The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both.... -- James Madison
We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance. -- James Madison
When I run the world,librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. -- Karen Joy Fowler
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their small sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. -- Karen Joy Fowler
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom. -- Jane Hirshfield
Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence. -- Blaise Pascal
Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. -- Bill Delahunt
But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away -- Samuel Johnson
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference. -- S. J. Perelman
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Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them. -- Patrick Henry
The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community. -- Susan Sontag
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. -- Henry James
Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
I had never actually seen an eight-pack, but there it was, right in front of me. I guessed that even slightly strange, silent hermits weren't exempt from exceptional physiques. Good for him. -- Mia Sheridan
All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom. -- John Stuart Mill
The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth. -- Edith Wharton
It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut -- Jonathan Schell
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare. -- Giacomo Leopardi
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger. -- Niccolo Machiavelli

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