Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.
In stand-up, there's that idea that comedy comes from a dark place, but it's not a rule.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
Apple doesn't do hobbies as a general rule.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.