Quotes About Rules And Exceptions

#1. Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

Marvin Minsky

#2. A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief
as well as injustice
to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

Derrick A. Bell

#3. Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

Ville Valo

#4. I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.

Dan Wells

#5. To every rule there is an exception - and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

Vera Nazarian

#6. I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.

Penn Jillette

#7. By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct a model of health.

Laurence Miller

#8. He practices exceptions and bends the rules.

Aporva Kala

#9. The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

Mason Cooley

#10. In America, being able to get things done, especially if it's by bending rules, making exceptions, or calling in a favor, is the way to show power. In France, being able to say non (especially to a bureaucratically legitimate request) is the way to show power. And piss me off.

Vivian Swift

#11. The irony of this endeavor is palpable, for English itself is a hopeless hodgepodge of other tongues, with more exceptions than rules, more chaos than order, and enough new words created each day to keep the Oxford English Dictionary folks very, very busy.

George Takei

#12. You will fall to ruin because you believe that exceptions to the rule make new rules.

Pierce Brown

#13. What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others blithely marched ahead.

Catherine Gildiner

#14. Look for the exception to every rule and you'll find it.

Marty Rubin

#15. There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.

Benjamin Disraeli

#16. As a General Authority, it is my responsibility to preach general principles. When I do, I don't try to define all the exceptions... I only teach the general rules. Whether an exception applies to you is your responsibility. You must work out individually between you and the Lord.

Dallin H. Oaks

#17. 3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#18. I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them.

Truth Devour

#19. The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#20. In love there are no rules, only exceptions.

Marty Rubin

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

Paul Eldridge

#22. Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.

Reuben Fine

#23. Truth is not the rule, but the exception to the rule.

Marty Rubin

#24. In life there might be rules. In love there are no exceptions to those rules. No one is spared from heartbreak. We all suffer it at some point or another. You simply can't control who you love and in particular, you can't control what kind of person they are.

J.C. Reed

#25. Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Margaret Fuller

#26. Miracles are exceptions principles are the rules.

Sunday Adelaja

#27. A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Martin H. Fischer

#28. Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.

Alafair Burke

#29. Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#30. No exceptions to exceptions!

Raheel Farooq

#31. At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Calvin Coolidge

#32. There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.

Marilyn Grey