
“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”
“"You're in the jungle, now. There are no rules." "Of course there are. Don't be an idiot."”
Nick Rostu and Mace windu on Jungle Rules, p. 206
Shatterpoint (2004)
Source: 1930s, A Dynamic Theory of Personality, 1935, p. 24.
“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
History jeers at the attempts of physiologists to bind great original laws by the forms which flow from them. They make a rule; they say from observation what can and cannot be. In vain! Nature provides exceptions to every rule. She sends women to battle, and sets Hercules spinning; she enables women to bear immense burdens, cold, and frost; she enables the man, who feels maternal love, to nourish his infant like a mother.
“One can indeed be restored, by an exceptional demonstration of love.”
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), Ch. 32, last page.
“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”
No. 305
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.”
Source: The Trouble with Kings
"The Party of Man-Haters," https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2018/10/19/the-party-of-manhaters-n2530054 Townhall.com, October 19, 2018
2010s, 2018
“One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.”
Was written in a slightly different way by Leo Longanesi in Italian, above form has been attributed to Kafka without evidence.
Misattributed
Source: One Idiot Is One Idiot. Two Idiots Are Two Idiots. Ten Thousand Idiots Are a Political Party, Quote Investigator, 2021-10-08 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/10/08/idiots/,