Exceptions Quotes

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Young, Old, Knows

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
Barack Obama

Work, History, Done

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
Kiana Tom

Respect, Kindness, Everyone

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Al Gore

Change, Experience, Future

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
Johnny Weissmuller

Through, Few, Underdog

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Mikhail Bakunin

Men, Equality, Two

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
David Bowie

Work, Best, Done

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Here, Process

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
Colin Firth

Humor, Thought, Serious

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
Martin H. Fischer

Good, Teacher, Rules

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
Charles Morgan

School, Law, Working

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow

Men, Respect, Country

I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.
Chris Christie

Life, Mother, Leave

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone

Successful, Dangerous, Mediocrity

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Margaret Fuller

Nature, Rule, Provides

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Old, Rule, Proof

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
Ville Valo

Enough, Few, Attention

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
Felix Klein

Confused, Through, Enough

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
John Ralston Saul

Death, Nothing, Statement

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
Samantha Morton

Life, Decision, Made

Science does not permit exceptions.
Claude Bernard

Science, Permit

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.
Joshua Foer

Today, Focus, Book

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.
Lena Horne

Brave, Same, Few

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
Michael Mandelbaum

Politics, Done, Control

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
James F. Cooper

General, Systems, Effects

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Randy Neugebauer

Marriage, Woman, Between

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington

Truth, Less, Likely

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
Ann Macbeth

Rather, Individual, Begin

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.
Justin Townes Earle

Life, Good, Live

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
Walter Mosley

Human, Thought, Matter

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