#exceptions

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

— Paul Eldridge

#discovery #exceptions #profundity #rules #sole

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#always #begin #commercial #commercial world #directors

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#civilizations #defined #did #exceptions #few

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#comes #common #common denominator #denominator #designation

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

— Martin H. Fischer

#good #good teacher #know #must #pupil

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#chain #equal #exceptions #faith #hold

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it. ↗

— Walter Lord

#although #couple #even #exceptions #families

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. ↗

— Charles Morgan

#commandments #exceptions #gone #had #harvard

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

#among #commonly #dangerous #even #exceptions