Science does not permit exceptions.

- Claude Bernard

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

- James F. Cooper

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

- John Ralston Saul

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

- Jack Prelutsky

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

- Joseph Kosinski

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

- Margaret Fuller

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

- Salman Rushdie

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

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

- Viggo Mortensen