Top Exceptions Quotes
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
Jack Prelutsky
There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.
Cliff Stearns
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Mikhail Bakunin All Exceptions Quotes
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 
74% of people like this quote
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington
62% of people like this quote
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone
59% of people like this quote
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
Jack Prelutsky
56% of people like this quote
There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.
Cliff Stearns
56% of people like this quote
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
J. Irwin Miller
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There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.
Stephen Collins
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Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
John Ralston Saul
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