Exceptions Quotes

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

– John Ralston Saul

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

– James F. Cooper

Science does not permit exceptions.

– Claude Bernard

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

– Barton Gellman

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

– Amy Irving

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

– Charles Osgood

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

– Margaret Fuller

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

– Lytton Strachey

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

– Joseph Kosinski

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

– Paul Eldridge

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

In general, writers shouldn’t be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

– Salman Rushdie

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

– Viggo Mortensen