Exception Quotes

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. (Groucho Marx)
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. View quote
Colin Powell
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. View quote
James Thurber
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. View quote
William Hazlitt
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception. View quote
Amos Oz
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. View quote
Gore Vidal
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. View quote
Émile Coué
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. View quote
Douglas Adams
The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity. View quote
Will Rogers
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. (John F. Kennedy)
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. View quote
Robert Burton
There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception. View quote
Tariq Ali
So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes - with the exception of their occupation. View quote
Karl Kraus
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. View quote
Alfred Jodl
Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams-a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told-sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. (Isaac Stern)
I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge. View quote
Ken Burns
With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon. View quote
Groucho Marx
Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of ‘systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,' which is easier done than said. View quote
Daniel Handler
In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule. View quote
Charles Krauthammer