Exception Quotes

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

– James Thurber

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

– Anthony Storr

How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.

– Alfred de Musset

Generally, speed skaters don’t run that much. I’m a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

– Apolo Ohno

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

– Antoine Rivarol

We shield our children from hazardous products – liquid nicotine should be no exception.

– Elizabeth Esty

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

– Charles Osgood

Most writers adore their editors, and I’m no exception.

– Linda Sue Park

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

– Laurie R. King

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

– Lawrence Lessig

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

– Johannes Stark

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

– James Ellroy

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.

– James L. Buckley

It’s disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he’s the exception and not the rule.

– Roxane Gay

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

– Robert Burton

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

– Richard P. Feynman

The lives of most authors – even, or perhaps especially, the great ones – are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.

– Paul Di Filippo

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

– Patricia Clarkson