Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception. — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
There were no exceptions for the aged, the ill, the women in pregnancy. — Herbert Adams Gibbons Copy Share Image
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule. — Elizabeth Hawes Copy Share Image
People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. — David Shields Copy Share Image
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me. — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air.… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception. — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing with another band, I kinda thought I… — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
You create your reality. You will find this freedom by learning to look inward, and by realizing that you create the reality… — Seth Copy Share Image
There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
All you have to do, is to see whether the law takes from some what belongs to them in order to give… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination,… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Anger is neither legitimate nor illegitimate, meaningful nor pointless. Anger simply is. To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking,… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
