#exception

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#exceptions #knows #man #old #old man

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years. ↗

— Lena Horne

#belongs #brave #clubs #exceptions #few

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#bad idea #california #could #exceptionally #idea

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#college #exception #now #pay #rule

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#exceptional #into #political #tactic #trick

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#exceptions #nature #provides #rule

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#because #exception #for the people #free #friends

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#equator #everything #exception #possible #possible exception

I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#afraid #everything #exception #her #i

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#exceptional #man #she #too #woman