“ There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. ”
- Charles Osgood- Copy
- 956
“ Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 2.2K
“ You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. ”
- Victor Cousin- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. ”
- Olin Miller- Copy
- 3.5K
“ To change one's life we must start immediately and do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. ”
- William James- Copy
- 3.6K
“ There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed. ”
- Francis Darwin- Copy
- 3.5K
“ There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The best leaders… almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. ”
- Thomas J. Peters- Copy
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“ Happiness is largely, though certainly not entirely, determined by us — through hard work. Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception. ”
- Dennis Prager- Copy
- 890
“ 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. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
- 1.6K
“ There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. ”
- Richard Perle- Copy
- 1.6K
“ All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. ”
- Mark Crispin Miller- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful. ”
- Eddie Murphy- Copy
- 3.8K
“ There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. ”
- Desmond Morris- Copy
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“ Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one. ”
- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things. ”
- James Darren- Copy
- 3.8K
“ All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions. ”
- Joyce Carey- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception. ”
- Baron Manfred von Richthofen- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ”
- Mitch Ratcliffe- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 1.6K
“ In the depths of my heart I can't help being convniced that my dear fellow men, with few exceptions, are worthless. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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