“if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress”
“...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.”
“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”
“Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)”
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
“As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. ”