“No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.”

“It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.”

“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”

“Exceptions to the rule do not invalidate the general principle that restraint by capital punishment and warfare is grossly ineffective and highly perilous.”

“Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.”

“In general, the rate of evaporation (m) of a substance in a high vacuum is related to the pressure (p) of the saturated vapor by the equation m=\sqrt{\frac{M}{2\pi RT}}p. Red phosphorus and some other substances probably form exceptions to this rule.”

“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.”

“With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.”

“The rule of law is not an exception to rule by fear; it is the fulfillment of rule by fear.”

“Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.”