“I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.”
Charles Osgood
“Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.”
Cesare Lombroso
“With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.”
Anthony Storr
“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception”
James Thurber
“There are truths that are singularly shy and ticklish and cannot be caught except suddenly -- that must be surprised or left alone.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is no useful rule without an exception”
Thomas Fuller
