Discovery Quote by Paul Eldridge

Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

— Mason Cooley

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Every rule has an exception. Especially this one.

— Anonymous

“One can gain more truth from the exception than from the rule”

— Italo Calvino

There's an exception to every rule

— Anonymous

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.

— Sherlock Holmes

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

The exception grooves the rule.

— John Alejandro King

The exception tests the rule.

— Richard P. Feynman

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life…

— Carl Schmitt

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

— James Thurber

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.

— Anonymous