I hate to generalize because there are always so many…

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

— Margaret Fuller

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Charles Osgood

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

— John Wooden

“You must pay to play. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

— Germany Kent

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

— Geraldine Jewsbury

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

— Viggo Mortensen

Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit…

— Thomas Kean, Jr

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

— Oscar Wilde

“No involvement means no commitment—no exception.”

— Laurie Buchanan, PhD

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

To generalize is to be an idiot.

— William Blake

“To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions.”

— Angela Harris

You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets…

— Lorin Stein

“When we generalize and judge people quickly without taking ample time, we've chosen a shortcut. It's superficial of us, and a lack of wisdom.”

— Assegid Habtewold